The top-level Government committee on bird flu, which includes experts from outside the Department of Agriculture, met this afternoon to review the measures in place to prevent the virus entering this country.
The committee, which is chaired by Professor Michael Monaghan of UCD, endorsed the decisions taken by the authorities over the past few days.
This special committee was formed last year when bird flu first arrived in Britain.
Professor Monaghan also chaired the crisis committee set up six years ago to monitor the Foot and mouth outbreak.
The Dept of Agriculture said this evening that no poultry meat products from Britain have been banned from this country.
The ban introduced yesterday concerned live birds from Britain which were destined for shows and bird meetings.
The authorities here introduced this measure following a similar move in Northern Ireland.
International bans on British poultry
The British Agriculture Ministry has confirmed that Russia, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, South Africa and Jersey have all imposed bans on the import of British poultry.
This will see imports of poultry feed and raw poultry suspended, but products that have been fried, roasted or heated in any way may still be permitted.
The ban follows the slaughter of 159,000 turkeys over an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu at a farm in Suffolk.
An investigation in under way into how the virus transferred to domestic poultry.
Many European countries, including France, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden have taken precautionary methods to prevent the spread of the virus.
Questions have been raised about whether the Suffolk farm took swift enough action after the first turkey deaths were discovered.
The first birds died in unexplained circumstances last Tuesday, but the matter was not reported to authorities until Thursday, when more than 1,000 other turkeys had perished.
However the European Commission, which monitors animal hygiene measures throughout the EU, has voiced confidence in Britain's handling of the latest outbreak.
