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For more than half a year, Shenzhen has been keeping a close eye on the bird flu situation. But with the confirmation of a man's death due to bird flu in Chen Shaohua, general secretary of Shenzhen Catering Service Association, said more than 200 catering enterprises in the city have committed to only selling poultry products that are completely boiled. His association has already banned all the catering enterprises in the city from selling domestic fowl and poultry that died of sickness or unidentified reasons. Markets in Shenzhen have also taken overall preventive measures. They are now following all health formalities and vow to strictly follow the requirements. "Beginning from today, we are not allowed to slaughter chickens," said one vendor at a stand for slaughtering at a supermarket in Jingtian, Futian District. He said there used to be six stands selling live fowls, and two usually did the slaughtering. On some days, more than 100 chickens were slaughtered. But during the past few days, only about 30 chickens were killed. A staff member at the market said that upon receiving the notice on Thursday, the market banned slaughtering. Chicken now must be taken to an enclosed slaughter yard instead. Other cities are also getting on board to prevent the spread of bird flu. Some live poultry traders in wet markets in six cities in On Wednesday, the Industrial and Commercial Administration of Guangdong Province banned on-the-spot poultry slaughtering in both the province's wet markets and supermarkets effective immediately, with a grace period of two days. The six cities are The administration also pledged to vaccinate and quarantine all poultry in the province to prevent new bird flu outbreaks. Some traders in "The government told me the ban will take effect in this market tomorrow. I will close my booth and suspend my business for some time," a female chicken trader who identified herself as Lin said yesterday. "I am feeding 30 live chickens at my booth. I am now trying hard to sell as many as possible," she said, adding she was already experiencing an 80 percent drop in sales. As a dietetic tradition, Guangzhou Municipal Industrial and Commercial Bureau has tried to come up with a solution for the chicken traders. The bureau has rebuilt most markets in "We will allow the traders to slaughter chickens in the separate rooms to ensure the process of slaughtering is clean and safe," Ye Huaxin, an officer of the bureau, told China Daily yesterday. The scheme has been approved by the provincial administration. "As for the markets without separate rooms, we will work out suitable solution in the near future," he said In In (
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