Source: MORNING AG CLIPS, 7/27/17

Editor's Note:  US Sens. Richard Burr and Thom Tillis signed onto this letter.

U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Thad Cochran, R-Miss., are among a bipartisan group of 37 Senators urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture to push the Chinese government to end its ban on American poultry products.
In a letter to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, the Senators challenge the ban, instituted by China in 2015 after the detection of a wild duck with Highly Pathogenic Avian Influence (HPAI). The ban, which contradicts World Health Organization for Animal Health standards, prevents Mississippi egg and poultry products from being exported to Chinese markets.

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