It’s for their own good."Cox, who also serves as the scientific director of the Food Safety Information Council, said if an outbreak does occur in a commercial facility, there are processes that would be implemented to restrict its impact."If we start to see any sign of illness in birds ... four to five months before flocks are replaced and producing eggs – minimum for six weeks for meat chickens," he said."There would be a lag in the market before we got back to the normal level of production, and that relies on the confidence that all traces of the virus are gone."As Australia faces potential further outbreaks of bird flu, Cox reiterates that poultry meat and eggs are safe for human consumption."Ingesting food is not a mechanism for transmission ..