Brazil's government has asked China to restrict its embargo on chicken imports to products just from the city of Montenegro, where the South American country last week registered an outbreak of bird flu on a commercial farm,

Brazil, the world’s largest poultry exporter and main poultry meat importer into the European Union, is no longer allowed to ship poultry and meat products to the EU due to the outbreak of bird flu, the European Commission said on Monday.

The Dominican Republic and 20 other countries or economic blocs have suspended imports of chicken meat from all of Brazil following the detection of a highly pathogenic avian flu outbreak at a commercial farm in Montenegro,