Japan opens doors to French poultry again

Japan opens doors to French poultry again

Japan decided to lift the Feb. 24 ban, which had been put in place after bird flu was detected on a turkey farm, the ministry said in a statement.

The ban on poultry imports from Landes, France, will remain in place, however, as birds there had been vaccinated, a measure banned in Japan, according to ministry official Norio Kumagai, according to the AP.

Japan is a major market for France, buying 10 percent of French foie gras exports.