(Baonghean.vn) - During the 2016 Food Safety Action Month, the inter-agency inspection team of Nghe An province focused on inspecting large farms and slaughterhouses in the area. Through the inspections, no rapid tests detected any lean meat enhancers such as Salbutamol or Clenbuterol in the samples.
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| The provincial inter-agency inspection team visited Minh Ngoc livestock farm in Yen Khanh hamlet, Yen Son commune - one of the three largest pig farms in Do Luong district. This is a closed-system farm with a total area of nearly 30,000 square meters.2. |
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| The farm raises sows for both breeding and market pigs, selling approximately 3,000 piglets annually. The market pigs are not enough to meet the demand of the people in Do Luong district. |
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| During the inspection, the inter-agency inspection team collected urine samples from the animals... |
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| ...conducting tests to check whether the farm is using banned growth-promoting substances such as Salbutamol and Clenbuterol. |
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| Next, the inter-agency team inspected the contract pig farm run by Prison No. 3 for Thai Duong Company in Nam Giang commune, Nam Dan district. |
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| The team also conducted rapid tests to determine whether this contract farming operation was using banned substances in animal husbandry. |
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| During the month of action, the provincial inter-agency team also conducted numerous inspections of private slaughterhouses, even in the middle of the night. |
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| One of them is the slaughterhouse owned by Ms. Nguyen Thi Nhi, located in Quang Trung block, Vinh Tan ward, Vinh City. Every night, this slaughterhouse butchers about 12-15 pigs. |
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| Veterinary personnel are regularly present at these slaughterhouses to control disease outbreaks. |
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| Conduct rapid tests for banned substances before meat is sold in markets to consumers. |
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| Rapid test samples were taken at pig farms in Do Luong and Nam Dan districts... |
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| ...and at slaughterhouses in Vinh City and Nghia Dan District, the results were negative for the growth-promoting substances Salbutamol and Clenbuterol. Initial results indicate that pigs raised in Nghe An basically do not use growth-promoting substances... |
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| However, the reality shows that it is often small-scale livestock farms that use banned substances. Furthermore, the risk of food safety and hygiene violations from the business, storage, and processing stages is even greater than from the farming and slaughtering stages. |
Thanh Son
