February 12, 2013
United Arab Emirates temporarily bans Bulgarian poultry
A number of ministerial decisions to organise the import of animals and birds in the country was issued by Rashid Ahmad Bin Fahd, United Arab Emirate's (UAE) Minister of Environment and Water, and one of the decisions was to ban the import of live birds and poultry meat from Bulgaria.
In another decision, live cows, their hides, and other parts from Lebanon were banned temporarily. Bin Fahd has also issued a decision on a temporary ban on import of small animals and their products from Algeria.
The decisions were made to "prevent the entry of epidemic diseases that threaten the UAE's animal wealth," according to gulfnews.com.
