The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has begun lifting import
bans on U.S. poultry and products containing poultry, such as pet food.
The bans were put in place when avian influenza broke out,
and they were implemented state by state.
This week the CFIA lifted bans on Arkansas and Montana.
Even though the U.S. has said
the disease has been cleared out of other states, Canada is retaining its bans
for California, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska,
North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington and Wisconsin.
