41.   He said his department had sent memos to the poultry industry alerting them to the Hong Kong risk in an effort to step up security.

42.   Health authorities feared the epidemic, a highly lethal and contagious strain of influenza, might spread to the domestic poultry industry.

43.   He said the U.S. association was working with the Ukrainian poultry industry to solve the problem.

44.   HONG Kong will adopt confidence-building measures before it resumes importing poultry from the mainland and starts rebuilding its own poultry industry.

45.   In the poultry industry, for example, meat and egg production has virtually collapsed because companies cannot afford to buy imported feed.

46.   Meanwhile, industry workers and trade unionists have warned the government compensation package for the poultry industry is incomplete and likely to spark labour disputes.

47.   Mrs Wei said many members of the poultry industry understood why the new measures were being implemented.

48.   On top of that, there will be serious disruptions to the upstream and downstream poultry industry, especially the farmers.

49.   Poultry industry presses government for more compensation.

50.   She said the new proposals were to protect the poultry industry and the public.