Properly cooked poultry safe, says Coughlan

THERE is no danger to consumers from properly cooked poultry, Agriculture and Food Minister Mary Coughlan has stressed.

As the lethal bird flu virus spread to nearly half of the EU’s 25 member states, the minister again highlighted the fact that there is no H5N1 in Ireland.

However, she said she is conscious of, and concerned by, the reported decline in poultry sales.