The state government of Tamil Nadu announced that it is safe to eat poultry products.
“The State Government of Tamil Nadu” stressed that there was no single instance of bird flu detected in Tamil Nadu and encouraged the public to eat poultry products.The press release said that after thorough tests and exhaustive postmortem of the poultry deaths from Bodinayakanoor in Theni district and Devedanampatti it has been found that the birds had died of starvation and not due to bird flu.
Legal cases have been recorded against the concerned poultry farms for not duly reporting the authorities about the bird deaths and disposing off the carcasses appropriately.
Source-Medindia
SPH/K
