date:Apr 06, 2012
The European Union (EU) has decided to lift the import ban on fresh poultry meat from Thailand beginning 1 July, ending an eight-year ban which was imposed after avian influenza was detected in Thai poultry.
The highly pathogenic avian influenza of the H5N1 subtype (HPAI H5N1) was identified at a farm in Suphan Buri province and the disease spread to several provinces in Thailand, following which the government culled nearly 63 million birds in 2004.
In the years following the ban, European Com