BRASILIA, June 4 (Reuters) - Brazil hopes to significantly ease trade restrictions on its chicken exports later this month, after a four-week observation period following a bird flu outbreak on a commercial farm in mid-May, Agriculture Minister Carlos Favaro said Wednesday.
Some 21 countries have imposed country-wide restrictions on chicken imports from Brazil, Favaro told reporters, adding that a number of importers, including China and the European Union, are in talks to limit the geographic scope of the trade bans.