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Article: THE SOURCE; EXCLUSIVE Hungarian slaughterhouse at centre of UK bird flu probe Bernard Matthews could face legal action over outbreak.(News)
- Article from:
- Sunday Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 11, 2007
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Byline: By KATE MANSEY and VINCENT MOSS
THIS is the Hungarian abattoir now being blamed for the outbreak of bird flu at the Bernard Matthews turkey farm.
Thousands of turkeys were slaughtered there before being taken across Europe to the company's East Anglian base.
Bernard Matthews has always said there was no connection between the Suffolk outbreak and its own operation in Hungary.
But it has now emerged the slaughterhouse it uses is only 30 miles from a goose farm where 13,000 birds had to be culled last month ...