On March 16, Mr. Dinh Minh Hiep, Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Ho Chi Minh City, said that he has directed the relevant units to verify the information reflected in the survey.Supply Line Penetration dirty pork the largest in the south” was published by Lao Dong newspaper on March 14-15.
According to Mr. Dinh Minh Hiep, right after the information was reflected in the press, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Ho Chi Minh City asked the City Sub-Department of Livestock and Veterinary Medicine and two slaughterhouses to related reports on management and control of slaughter, and conducted a full factory camera extraction to verify the violations reflected in the report.
If any violations are detected, the functional forces will strictly handle to correct the operation of the slaughterhouses, ensuring the health and safety of the slaughterhouses. consumers.
According to the report of the Sub-Department of Livestock Production and Veterinary Medicine of Ho Chi Minh City on the management of slaughterhouses in the area, the city currently has 12 concentrated pig slaughtering facilities and 9 manual pig slaughtering facilities. .
From January 1 to March 15, the number of pigs slaughtered by the establishments was 441,786 heads; 6 animals for destruction, 27 for boiling treatment and 7,327 kg of by-products; changed to processing at Vissan (due to not meeting the conditions for trading fresh pork) 176 heads.
Particularly for Xuan Thoi Thuong slaughterhouse (Hoc Mon) and Xuyen A pig slaughterhouse (Cu Chi) – the two facilities mentioned in the report – from March 1 to March 15, a total of 48,327 slaughtered. pig. Amount of treatment and destruction of 2 pigs and 1,887kg of by-products; processing and boiling 14 fish and 988 kg of by-products.
Specifically, Xuan Thoi Thuong slaughterhouse handled and destroyed 1,887kg of by-products; Xuyen A slaughterhouse destroyed 2 dead pigs; processing and boiling 14 fish and 988 kg of by-products.
Mr. Le Viet Bao, Head of the Animal Health and Livestock Sub-Department of Ho Chi Minh City, said that according to regulations on slaughter control and inspection, veterinary hygieneBefore entering the city, vehicles transporting animals and animal products must be checked at animal quarantine stations. If satisfactory, the functional force will stamp the inspection to arrive at the destination (slaughterhouse) and enter the data into the software for the destination to monitor and compare.
Arrival slaughterhouseVeterinary staff will check the records, do clinical checks and compare software data to double check, if the pigs meet the requirements, they will be imported and continue to carry out the slaughter control process as prescribed.
In case of detecting dead pigs at the animal quarantine station, the veterinary staff will inform the leader of the destination unit (slaughterhouse) for coordination in handling; at the same time, the carrier (representative of the goods owner) voluntarily commits to transport the dead pigs to the right destination for treatment and reports the results to the animal quarantine station after completing the treatment.
At the slaughterhouse, veterinary staff will prepare handling records according to regulations. When processing is complete, the carrier submits the documents to the animal quarantine station to complete the process.
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In case a pig is found dead at the slaughterhouse, the veterinary staff will make a record of disposal (if it is determined that the pig died due to mechanical injury, stress, shock during transportation but has not rotted, it is allowed to kill). slaughter for animal feed).
Thus, the Sub-Department of Livestock and Veterinary Medicine has built a medical software system to manage cattle data from the provinces to the slaughter city; including the control link from the animal quarantine station to the slaughterhouse.
“In the past time, the Sub-Department of Livestock and Veterinary Medicine has not recorded the act of smuggling dead pigs out of the slaughterhouse. However, according to the Lao Dong Newspaper in recent days, the Sub-Department of Livestock and Veterinary Medicine is urgently coordinating with slaughterhouses to review, extract data, work with individuals, relevant departments (veterinarians, security guards, factory managers…) to determine the behavior, explain in detail and handle in accordance with regulations if there are violations,” Mr. Le Viet Bao informed.
In parallel with the review of the reported information, the Sub-Department of Livestock Production and Veterinary Medicine of the city also requested its attached units to strengthen control over the slaughter of livestock and poultry in the area to ensure providing safe animal products to consumers.
