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SHOTLIST 1. Wide shot Valery Miermont's poultry farm 2. French agriculture minister Dominique Bussereau (on right, in brown scarf) talking with poultry farmer Valery Miermont (on left in pale cardigan) 3. Bussereau walking towards farm 4. SOUNDBITE (French) Dominique Bussereau, French Minister for Agriculture: "Avian flu is at our doors. It has not reached French territory yet so we'll keep those measures (the confinement of poultry indoors) until it (the bird flu) is not at our doors. It could last a dew days, a few weeks, a few months, or longer. We don't know. So we are applying the principle of precaution. I think that those in the profession understand perfectly that it is in their interest regarding the consumers. It is not a quesion of the state on one side, of the public authorities versus the poultry farmers. It is a common awareness of the necessity to protect an economic tool which is very important in terms of jobs in our country and also in terms of export because we are one of the biggest poultry exporting countries in the world." 5. Bussereau entering large shed where turkeys are kept 6. Bussereau talking with poultry farmer Valery Miermont, turkeys in background 7. Various of turkeys in shed 8. SOUNDBITE (French) Valery Miermont, poultry farmer: NOT VERBATIM "People can't say there won't be any cases (of bird flu). We can't say that. But if there is one, it will be automatically confined. There is no danger for human beings. As you can see, the conditions here are good. These birds never go in my house, These birds are kept in proper clean conditions, because I would never have on my table a bird that wasn't kept that way. At the end of the day it is my income." 9. Mid of turkeys 10. Pan turkeys in shed 11. SOUNDBITE (French) Valery Miermont, poultry farmer: "We must not link these problems with what is happening in Asia, or even in Turkey. We are not in the same conditions of breeding. It is unfortunate for those people who died but we don't have the same lifestyle. Here there is an automatic sanitary barrier and we are not in direct contact with the animals. The biggest danger is for me, as I am in contact (with the turkeys) every day. But there is no contamination from the poultry to the human being because I take sanitary precautions and there are no cases of influenza, so I'm not afraid." 12. Close up Miermont's boots covered with plastic protective covers, tilt up 13. Wide shot poultry farm STORYLINE The French Minister for Agriculture, Dominique Bussereau, on Thursday visited a poultry farm, as avian flu looms across Europe and gets closer to the French border. The minister, along with the mayor of Chatillon-sur-Loire (170 kilometres south of Paris), were invited by Valery Miermont, a local poultry farmer, to witness the enforcement of the new poultry containment measures. The French government on Wednesday ordered all poultry in France to be either vaccinated or confined indoors as a precaution against the spread of bird flu. The order follows a recommendation on Tuesday by national food safety agency AFSSA to expand a policy in 58 regions of taking fowl inside to reduce the risks that they come in contact with migrating birds that could be carrying the disease. Miermont stressed that the 18,500 turkeys at the farm are kept in clean conditions, away from human habitation, and with no direct contact with human beings, except himself, but he follows strict sanitary precautions. As the number of concrete cases in Europe continued to mount, European authorities pushed ahead with measures to boost defences against the disease and prevent a large outbreak when migratory birds begin travelling north next month. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/8372e058b87d21f3a56f1b30aacf56de Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork