Brazil is no longer allowed to export poultry and meat products to the European Union due to the outbreak of bird flu, the European Commission said on Monday. "EU import conditions require that the country of export (Brazil) is free of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza,

A devastating U.S. bird flu outbreak and wider trade tensions with Washington have limited Chinese appetite for American poultry. China now blocks poultry from more than 40 U.S. states over bird flu, according to U.S. government data.

Brazil, one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of poultry, has confirmed the country’s first bird flu outbreak on a commercial farm.