EU farm ministers agreed onward Tuesday to ban poultry and harrys from only California.

EU farm ministers agreed onward Tuesday to ban poultry and harrys from only California, Arizona and Nevada, in answer to the outbreak of Exotic Newcastle Disease in the US.

The persuade ended a blanket ban which had applied to the whole geographical division since October 2002.

in like manner far the disease--which is spread by dint of migrant birds and is fatal to poultry--has been confined largely to California.

Some EU dominions notably those of France, Spain and Luxembourg, were reluctant to allow a regionalised approach to the US domestic fowls problem without demanding reciprocal action from the US on Classical Swine agitation (CSF). ...