An official at the ministry said South Korea, China, Thailand, Egypt, Algeria and Tunisia were the other countries to suspend imports. She declined to give further details.
France`s health and safety agency has been evaluating the strain`s degree of danger to humans, Agriculture Minister Stephane Le Foll told reporters last week, insisting there was no risk of transmission by eating food.
The outbreak comes just before demand for foie gras, produced from duck or goose liver, peaks over the year-end holiday season, but officials play down any impact.
Sales of French foie gras were worth around 2 billion euros ($2.1 billion) at the wholesale level last year.
Several countries including Japan, Egypt and Hong Kong banned French poultry following past outbreaks of H5N1. Japan is the largest importer of French foie gras.
Several cases of bird flu have been detected in the last two weeks of the farms in the Dordogne, a first in France since 2007 and the discovery of H5N1 in wild swans in Moselle.
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