How to distinguish clean pork and dirty meat

How to distinguish delicious meat and meat containing lean substance

Pork is clean and solid meat, has high elasticity, the fibers are even, when processed, it has a fragrant smell, not being watery, even blooming. Pigs fed with food containing chemicals, skin with unusual tension, thinness, feel like stagnant water inside, skin also appears red spots.

Meat containing lean substance often has a bright red color, a dull muscle texture, feeling of stagnant water inside, red skin appears on the skin. The subcutaneous fat layer is very thin and loose, usually only about 1 cm thick, the flesh is very bright red, the flesh is bright and bright red.

When cutting a piece of about 2 fingers thick and placing it on a plate, the meat will not stand up for long but slowly droop. In the case of a seller with a colored product with pig blood to apply to the meat for beautiful meat like fresh meat. This type of meat will turn pale and have a very unpleasant smell. Yellow meat and fat should not be purchased '.

Delicious meat is a piece of meat that has a dry appearance, fresh pink color, meat that is not wet, viscous, has no bad smell, makes fragrant food, does not get water.

The flesh is solid, the fat layer between the skin and the meat is thick, adherent to each other, the fibers are long, even, with high elasticity, pressing the finger will create a dent but when the hand is released, only 5 , 10 seconds later the dent will return to its normal position.

Lean substance - substance banned from use in livestock

Prof. Dr. Nguyen Duy Thinh, staff of the Institute of Biotechnology - Food Technology, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, said lean substances for pigs are often derived from the B-agonist group Salbutamol, Chlebutarol. This is a group of toxic substances that the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have banned for many years.

'Farmers often mix this with pig feed for 1-2 months, even 15 days. After using for about half a month, farmers have to give pigs to slaughter because otherwise they will degenerate, possibly die. Therefore, if eating pork containing lean substance, users will eat directly the residues of such substances, 'Associate Professor Thinh said.

According to the expert, the lean substance that enters the body of the pig will make the blood in the lean meat stand on the fat side. After that, the fat gradually turned red like lean meat, making many consumers mistaken.

As for Salbutamol, Prof. Dr. Nguyen Lan Dung, Chairman of Vietnam Society of Biological Industries, said this is a medicine to treat asthma with very small doses and need strict control of physicians.

However, when illegally used in livestock, people often use with higher doses 5-10 times higher than prescribed, dangerous to health.

'Salbutamol and Clenbutarol are easily absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract. Therefore, the amount of residues in the meat is much higher and the user will absorb it more.

After a period of accumulation in the body, consumers will be poisoned causing headaches, shaking hands, nausea, tachycardia, increased or lowering blood pressure, digestive disorders. In case of severe poisoning can be life-threatening, Professor Thinh recommended.

Particularly for the ability to cause cancer, this expert said that there has been no official announcement about this. However, lean substance is still a chemical capable of harming human health.

Although Salbutamol (the most popular lean chemical) is still being used in medicine, but Prof. Thinh still affirmed: 'It does not mean that they are used in medicine to be used for livestock. We still sell pesticides, but cannot use them to do other things. Therefore, consumers need to be more proactive in protecting themselves and their families'.