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Published Date: 13 February 2007
THE farm at the centre of the Suffolk bird flu outbreak was expected to start processing turkeys again today after being given the go-ahead by food hygiene officials.
Environment Secretary David Miliband announced last night the slaughterhouse at Bernard Matthews' Holton site had been relicensed after it was disinfected.

The company said it would be "fully operational" from today, as an investigation into the source of the outbreak continued.

The European Commission said there was no evidence that the virus had come from Hungary, but Mr Miliband insisted all possibilities were being considered.

There are also suggestions that the Government was not told by the company that meat had been imported from within 20 miles of a similar outbreak in Hungary.

Bernard Matthews insisted it had never withheld information from officials.



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  • Last Updated: 13 February 2007 10:01 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Bird flu
 
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bill, england,

13/02/2007 14:12:47

Time to have an enquiry into just what Defra are doing.

They allowed poultry in from infected Hungary, allowed processing to continue in the Suffolk exclusion zone, and allowed exports from the exclusion zone.

They have now allowed resumption of slaughtering and processing of poultry from all over the county, even though they still do not know where the virus came from.

Our lives are at risk with these incompetents running things. At least when MAFF bungled the foot and mouth crisis, human lives were not endangered.


 

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