Seasonal epidemics, again no food safety concerns

On 03-05-2010 22:13

ND - Translation ear is green broke and complicated in five communes in Gia Lam district and the adjacent provinces of Hanoi, the capital city makes people very nervous.

During the past week, each day Hospital for Tropical receive one to two patients infected with Streptococcus infections from pigs to humans. In some cases it is very heavy.
Before this situation, City People's Committee has the power both of 03/CD-UBND focus on the prevention and fight against this disease.
City of functional requirements, districts, towns and increase detection and treatment resolute, timely and lawful for the outbreak. At the same time, strengthen inspection of shipping, trading and slaughtering cattle. Maintain regular operation, continuous operation of the mobile inspection teams, inter-branch inspection teams, the key in the gateway city to maintain the 24/24 hours, in order to strictly control the trade transporting animals from this locality to another locality, limiting the spread of epidemics ...

Changes in such complex diseases, but in fact, work against the epidemic is still superficial. Although the work of quarantine was "enhanced" than the day before, but also concentrated in major markets in the city center. In some other markets, more distant centers such as: Location, Dominic Tam, Ngoc Ha, Nghia Tan, The Green ... People buying goods hard to find pork with a check mark on the animal health agency Toad in the market spiked through the corners, the collective areas, mostly pork traders brought from the provinces of Bac Ninh, Hai Duong, Hung Yen ... areas are blue ear pig outbreak, public display.Many owners have revealed their freighter went from two, three o'clock in the morning to avoid quarantine.

But the general psychology of consumers, why? Many housewives have heard from the blue ear epidemic is not to buy pork, but chicken, beef, seafood ... But pork is the main food, can be processed into food, the price cheaper than other meats.
Many families decided to use pork, but only buy at the supermarket, the meat is derived, was clear quarantine. However, families do not have conditions to go supermarket regularly, especially families with low incomes. Moreover, the fresh meat sold in supermarkets are not rich, just a bit late as all goods. So, most consumers still accept purchase pork sold at markets, "eating and just worry."

Meanwhile the construction progress of the slaughter of cattle and poultry concentrated, hygiene and food safety (FSH) is very slow. Since early 2000, City People's Committee plans to build in areas of the city gate slaughter focused, modern, to move the point unhygienic slaughter in the inner city.
So far, the only city in the slaughter industry average of 100 pigs, 5,500 birds per day, reaching a capacity of more than 8% and 35% pig slaughter capacity of slaughtering poultry, meet than 1% of the demand of nearly 7% of pork and poultry meat demand of the people of the city.

The slaughter manual includes 17 points, nearly 26% to meet demand for pork and 6% of the demand for chicken. The remainder is provided from the 3725 slaughter of small points in residential areas, does not guarantee food safety and hygiene conditions. Because of lack of animal products, poultry and clean, safe, so people still have a daily consumption of products from slaughterhouses for cattle, poultry, unhygienic not be quarantined.

Use of animal products and poultry "clean" is urgent legitimate needs of Hanoi people, because the health of the whole community. The city needs to have mechanisms and incentive policies and create conditions more favorable for investors, to soon have the slaughtering, processing and preserving animal and poultry modern hygiene food safety. Attach the supply of products slaughter, processing, storage networking with food consumed on the city, to sanction the slaughter and trade of cattle and poultry unsafe students, ensuring food supplies for consumption needs of the people, active control of food hygiene and safety, especially in times of disease complicated as today.