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Oman bans poultry products from Saudi Arabia
Oman's decision came as the UAE issued a similar ban after detecting "suspicious samples" among poultry products from Saudi Arabia.
- Agencies
- Published: 11:43 November 19, 2007
Muscat: Oman's agriculture ministry has issued a ban on poultry from Saudi Arabia, the Times of Oman reported on Monday.
Oman's decision came as the UAE issued a similar ban after detecting "suspicious samples" among poultry products from Saudi Arabia.
The imposed ban comes almost a week after the Saudi Agriculture Ministry announced that it had culled over 90,000 birds after deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu was detected at some poultry farms.
Saudi Arabia cited migratory birds as the cause of outbreak.
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