Old chicken feet bleaching with oxygen

More than 170 kg of bruised chicken feet with about 10 kg are soaked in the old oxygen solution to whiten recently discovered at a business location in District 3, HCMC, October 9 afternoon.

Representatives of the District 3 food hygiene and safety inspection team said that all of the food products about to be processed into grilled chicken feet and chicken leg salad have no proof of origin.

Declaring to the authorities, the business owner said he bought chicken feet from acquaintances so he did not write the bill. He also admitted to using old oxygen for the purpose of dissolving bruises on the material.

In the face of food hygiene violations, the inspection team made a report to destroy all of the chicken legs.

One day earlier, the Veterinary Hygiene Station of Binh Dien market (District 8) also found a truck carrying more than a ton of poorly cleaned chicken wings into this market. Many boxes in the shipment contained chicken wings with fur or bruises. Veterinary agencies took samples to test for microbiological factors.

After a series of violations of veterinary hygiene standards discovered by interdisciplinary inspection teams in districts, on October 9, Region VI Animal Health Center had a meeting with Ho Chi Minh City Veterinary Department and provinces. Neighboring citadel to offer measures to tighten management.

Representative of Regional Veterinary Center VI said that it would request the Department of Animal Health to stop granting animal product import licenses to violating enterprises.