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With bird flu breaking out in 16 areas across China, nearly 100 key poultry enterprises promised in Beijing on Feb. 28 that their products are and will be safe in the future, in a bid to assure customers who will sometimes hesitate in eating fowl meat.
"The breeding, processing and marketing of poultry products by the key enterprises are strictly in line with state food safety requirements," said Cao Xumin, president of the China Chamber of Commerce of Import and Export of Foodstuffs, Native Produce & Animal By-Products (CNFA). "Customers can be well assured that the products processed and sold by them are safe and fine."
"Sound epidemic prevention, quarantine and inspection measures are available at every stage of the production," said Cao.
The deadly avian flu occurred mainly in small farms owned by the private or households which were badly operated or managed below state or industry standards, according to Ning Yibao, a researcher with the China Institute of Veterinary Drug Control.
"The enterprises welcome supervision from both the government and customers," said Cao.
He said China has been the world's largest poultry egg producer and second largest poultry flesh producer in the past years.
China exported 800 million US dollars worth of poultry meat and products in 2003, with 70 percent of which came from these key enterprises.
China's State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said on Friday that some countries and regions, including the Republic of Korea, Singapore and Japan, had agreed to resume the import of some poultry and related products from China.
Cooked poultry products, canned and bottled poultry meat and feather products are on the list.
But the administration still prohibits the export of certain poultry and relevant products, including domestic fowls, wild fowls, poultry breeding eggs, poultry sperm and flesh, other related unprocessed products and products processed below safety standards.
The administration said it will continue negotiations with relevant nations and regions so as to resume normal foreign trade in poultry and related products soon as possible.
To date, the quarantine on areas hit by the H5N1 strain of bird flu in at least six provinces has been lifted.


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