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Article: Bernard Matthews faces quiz over bird flu
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 9, 2007
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BERNARD MATTHEWS, Britain's largest turkey producer, was today
facing a government investigation amid concerns that the company
imported turkeys infected with bird flu from Hungary.
Government vets believe the company may have brought turkeys from
an area of Hungary where an identical strain of bird flu had been
found.
They are now investigating claims that the poultry giant may have
failed to disclose the imports.
"Our investigations have shown that one possible route of
infection is poultry product imported from Hungary," said the
government's Deputy Chief Vet, Fred Landeg.
"The company involved have voluntarily agreed to temporarily
suspend the movement of poultry products between ...