Brazilian food processor BRF is confident local companies will be able to circumvent chicken trade bans in a matter of days as local authorities have so far been able to control a bird flu outbreak in the world's largest chicken-exporting nation.

Brazil's Agriculture Minister Carlos Favaro said on Wednesday there were strong indications that the world's biggest chicken exporter had efficiently contained a bird flu outbreak which was reported on a commercial chicken farm in mid-May,

Brazil said Wednesday it had contained an outbreak of avian flu that had forced it to suspend chicken meat exports to China and 20 other countries