Food safety risks lurk in traditional markets

(Baonghean.vn) - Currently, in traditional markets, it is easy to see the arbitrariness and subjectivity of traders as well as consumers in choosing and displaying food, potentially posing a risk of food safety and hygiene.

Traders slaughter poultry right next to live poultry cages, not only causing food safety problems but also polluting the market.

The aisles between the stalls are littered with garbage and black sewage. Yet this is the address where hundreds of thousands of housewives trust to buy food every day.

Many spontaneous livestock meat stalls in front of households, "drying" the meat on cardboard throughout the market day, are still crowded with buyers.

Not only raw food, cooked food stalls are also unhygienic when they are located in the middle of the street or on the sidewalk. In the photo: Roast duck stall along Phan Boi Chau street.

Pickled cucumbers and eggplants are kept in plastic pots, uncovered. The seller calmly picks them up with his hands when a customer asks to buy.

Similar unsanitary conditions also occur at fish stalls.

Fish stalls at Chua market (Nam Dan) are located right in front of the garbage dump.

And the toilet is only separated from the fish stall by 2 motorbikes.

Reporter - Contributor Group