How to buy pork without salbutamol and spinach without water

At the conference " For a safe food market " organized by Vietnam Standards and Consumer Protection Association (Vinastas) and Consumer Newspaper on March 26, Ms. Nguyen Huynh Mai, Deputy Head of Department The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Food Safety and Hygiene (Department of Health of Ho Chi Minh City) said that the current issue of food hygiene and safety management only from tops is checked at markets and supermarkets. The original is the farmer, the production enterprise is almost left open.

Consumers should buy food of origin and have basic knowledge to identify food with chemicals.

For example, recently, in Cu Chi, some farmers used viscous oil for morning glory, making vegetables greener and smoother. Or think of chemicals impregnated with chickens that make yellow for chicken. Due to habits, like to use shiny yellow products, business people respond immediately. This substance is extremely harmful.

On February 3, 2016, authorities discovered Binh Hanh Co., Ltd. at 209/14 Le Van Sy, P13, District 3, which allowed to turn over 2,000 kg of sow into beef from sows to fragrant beef. delicious . and more recently the shocking information revealed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is that tons of salbutamol-containing pork has been ingested by Vietnamese consumers.

Therefore, Ms. Nguyen Huynh Mai advised that: " Consumers should find good products to buy. Principles of safe food selection: Buy safe food, traceability. If consumers Without knowing the source, consumers lose their consumer rights ".

General principles: Buy food of origin , which has been controlled by state agencies (counters, stalls in markets, shops, supermarkets .). Priority is given to products with packaging, labels, clean business locations, ensuring veterinary hygiene (cattle meat in cool cabinets, poultry in insulated cabinets .), reputable for quality, listing prices as prescribed. Limit ready-to-eat products: mashed garlic, ground lemongrass, ready-to-eat vegetables, soaked in water, meat, minced fish . because of the risk of using bleach and borax ".

Principle of selecting food: For example, pork meat is clean, solid, has high elasticity, the fibers are even, when processed, it is fragrant, not water. Pigs fed with food contain chemicals, skin with thinness, thinness, stagnant water inside, and red spots on the skin.

Super lean pigs have lean parts close to the skin, there are lots of lean lumps, little fat, only about 0.4 cm thin, meat is red like beef. Meat with marinated impregnation, salt salt: look very fresh, hard but dry, the flesh of the meat, not sticky . When cut deep into the inside, the meat is quite emptied, flowing, smelling, has poor elasticity.

Get to know super lean pork:

1. Subcutaneous fat layer: super lean pigs are fed chemicals so the fat layer is thin, sometimes less than 1 cm thick, while the fat layer of normal pork is about 1.5-2 cm.
2. Colors: Pork containing ractopamine and clenbuterol toxins often have unusual bright red color, shine and shine.
3. Cut the meat into pieces of 2-3 fingers thick, if you see the soft meat, don't stand upright on the table, so the meat of the pig can be raised with weight gain.
4. Observe the bond between lean and fat, if it is clearly separated, and yellow fluid is oozing out, it is super lean meat.

The bundle of young vegetables is lush, the leaves are green, no trace of insects and the body is fat, irregularly, it is vegetables that are fertilized with nitrate. You should not use this type of cabbage, especially raw.

About spinach: When using too much nitrogen or foliar fertilizer, the vegetable body is usually larger than normal, crispy vegetables, dark green leaves. When boiled vegetables, hot boiled water is light green, and when it cools, turns into dark blue and black precipitate remains. When these vegetables are finished, if you are observant, you will have a bitter taste.

So, you should choose small vegetables, look a little hard but eat very brittle, delicious and safe. In addition, vegetables do not contain chemicals and there will be plastic streaks that break down the stem. The best morning glory in April, May and June of the year. Ms. Nguyen Huynh Mai also said happily, in the market, there was a deep-catching service to sell to vegetables, so that consumers thought it was clean vegetables.

In addition, consumers should note. Choose safe products, then with vegetables, after buying to consumers, cut off the original part, separate each leaf, remove the deep leaves. Then, soak the vegetables in salt water for about 15 minutes and then thoroughly wash each leaf under running water several times before putting it into processing to ensure your health and your family.