Oh! Sg imports chickens from Shandong China, safe to eat?
-
No problems with chicken supply from Shandong: AVA
By Evelyn Lam | Posted: 24 December 2012 2117 hrsSINGAPORE: Authorities said Singapore's chicken supply has not been affected by China's latest tainted food scare.
Some chicken farms in Shandong are now being investigated after Shanghai authorities found a suspicious level of antibiotics in chicken from a fast food chain.
Over the last two years, Singapore has imported about 350 kg of poultry products from Shandong.
But the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) has not found any problems with the shipment.
Experts said antibiotics are commonly used in chicken farms as they can protect poultry from diseases while helping them to grow faster.
But the medication stops about a week before the chickens are slaughtered to prevent retention of the drug.
"If we ingest a lot of meat that has been tainted with antibiotics, it may cause a reduction in good (bacterial) flora," said Ms Lee Yee Lin, veterinary surgeon at Animal Recovery Centre.
"Sometimes, with traces of penicillin, it can cause allergic reactions to humans who have penicillin allergies."
But experts pointed out that excess antibiotics may build immunity towards some bacteria in animals.
If the animal retains the bacteria, it may be transmitted to human beings through different ways.
Ms Lee said: "Bacteria may be passed by the environmental factors; the wind, the dust, the water, or sometimes the bacteria may be present on the meat itself, so when we handle the raw meat with our hands and (if) we are not careful and we start ingesting, we are actually ingesting the bacteria."
AVA said all meat imported are subject to a battery of tests - including for antibiotics and hormones - before they are allowed to be sold.
Singapore has not banned any meat imports from China in the last two years.
- CNA/xq-----------------------------------
In China, Kentucky get their chickens supply from this company. Those sgporeans going to China and want to eat Kentucky, please find out how safe it is to eat the chickens.
-
So scary, Sg imports chickens from China.
China chickens supplier injected antiobiotic (great in quantity) and one other thing (in chinese, don't know what that is) to the chickens to make them grow faster. Indirectly, it can cause health hazard to those eating the chickens. (Taiwan News).
Scary!!!!!
Now is importing chickens, what is next? Import calamine milk powder??
-
import chickens?
i thot we already have them everywhere
-
for a moment i have to double check whether this one goes to food forum or bar
-
Well i guess we can try our luck and see if anything happens.. Sounds scary though..
-
Originally posted by FireIce:
for a moment i have to double check whether this one goes to food forum or bar
shandong famous for jiken ma? -
arbo wat?
peanuts ah?
-
Originally posted by FireIce:
arbo wat?
peanuts ah?
-
Originally posted by FireIce:
for a moment i have to double check whether this one goes to food forum or bar
Hah!
-
Originally posted by FireIce:
arbo wat?
peanuts ah?
*thumbs up*
-
Shandong produced Confuscius, Gongli and that jerk with yucky look from the private school who posted online to criticize Singaporeans.
-
Cheaper better faster.
-
Originally posted by SJS6638:
Shandong produced Confuscius, Gongli and that jerk with yucky look from the private school who posted online to criticize Singaporeans.
huh?