When eating meat is risky, dangerous
THERE is another way to ensure wellness and good health especially during the holidays – buy processed meat products, particularly ham, only from accredited establishments. A quick check on the list posted on the website of National Meat Inspection Service (NMIS) will help.
Dr. Eduardo Oblena, regional director of the National Meat Inspection Service (NMIS) gave this advice to ensure that the meat that one serves on the table is not derived from botcha (hot meat or double dead meat).
He said very time an accreditation expires or withdrawn, the information is immediately updated on their website.
The regional director warned that some unscruplous businessmen use botcha (hot meat or double dead) for tocino, longganisa, ham or hotdog, and the ill effects of botcha are felt mostly by sick, eledery and the young, whose resstance is poor.
He also warned the public from patronizing meat that comes from commercial farms that use excessive growth promotants/boosters for their pigs.
His office is closely monitoring commercial farms that use banned residues.
Consumers develop drug-resistant mutants if the meat they consume contain leftover residues from antibiotics in the meat. These are natural inhabitant micro-organisms that wait for the weakening of a human resistance before they would attack, Oblena added.
If an ordinary antibiotic, whose active ingredient is similar to the one given to pigs when they were still alive, is administered to a sick person, this would no longer be effective to the patient, Oblena said.
Meanwhile, Oblena said processed meat sold in the markets should be kept in refrigerators or under controlled temperature condition when these are displayed.
Some 50 kilograms of meat products improperly stored were recently seized by the NMIS from the Urdaneta City public market in its efforts to closely monitor chilled, frozen and thawed meat in the region with the onset of holiday season.
Oblena said the meat products were seized because the vendors failed to comply with the proper storage of frozen meat mandated under the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) administrative order no. 6 series of 2012.
He said improperly handled meat products could lead to food poisoning. (Tita Roces/ Hilda Austria)
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