Turpentine chicken feather, duck 'super fast' is toxic?

Chicken and duck are favorite foods of many people and indispensable in the occasion of partying and weddings. The use of poultry feathering chemicals 10 minutes 3 children, clean all bamboo shoots makes "technology" boiling water, chicken feather plucking machine, tweezers are knocked off. But . what is toxic when using these chemicals?

Many places use poultry "hair removal"

In this way, poultry after cutting are quickly dipped into a pot of water to make chemicals and then dipped into a container of water. The chemical layer of poultry's feathers froze right away, just grabbing the black coating layer is clean, not torn, scratched and more beautiful than the way of pulling the hair manually, or pulling the machine.

To remove the smell of ducks, use white and ruby ​​alcohol on duck skin, then discharge it under the tap, the duck will be white and clean.(Photo: TG).

Hard resin seeps into poultry meat

Most practitioners believe that pine resin for poultry feathers is only in preliminary processing, not processing. After cleaning the feathers, the birds are washed with clean water to wash out the chemicals, if there is any stick, when cooking at high temperatures, the toxic is also gone.

Commenting on this, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Duy Thinh (Institute of Biology and Food Technology) said that the resin has an adhesive property to make the plaques clump, just clean, save time. labor time for people. But Mr. Nguyen Duy Thinh added that the pale yellow wax mixed with pine resin is the main ingredient of paraffin , when ingested it will not be digested . As for pine resin, it is difficult to penetrate poultry meat and there is no evidence that turpentine can penetrate poultry meat in the process of feathering . "Pine resin is also a hard gel to dissolve in water, therefore, it is not possible to penetrate poultry skin, because it is necessary to penetrate the skin of poultry to have other physical and chemical effects and the time is long. The composition is complicated and not all active ingredients are easily absorbed through the skin, if only dip the bird through the wax pot - the resin is difficult to penetrate through the skin into poultry meat for a short time .

Workers also only pry and then pick out the clean water, the resin will not accumulate on the skin of poultry. If there is too much immersion in chickens and ducks in hot turpentine water, the skin of the bird will slip away with the hair, not beautiful. In addition, if poultry meat infused with resin will not be able to be eaten because the meat is very bitter, " said Dr. Nguyen Duy Thinh.

According to Dr. Nguyen Duy Thinh, he used to warn on mass media about waxed hair and wax will harm himself. Accordingly, when boiling pine resin will produce ammonia (NH ₃ ) odor, very toxic because it can irritate the mucosa, eyes, stomach, cause respiratory organs contraction, burn skin . The reason is that poultry slaughterers are at risk of harming themselves because they regularly breathe in toxic gases when the gas escapes , affecting their own health, and also polluting the environment because of the exhaust gases of the furnace. burning at the facilities generates a lot of unpleasant odors for those around it.