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CCTV reveals poultry polluted by industrial rosin
By Li Qian |
April 9, 2012, Monday
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A wholesale poultry market in Changsha, capital of central Hunan Province was shut down after vendors used carcinogenic rosin to remove bird feathers.
But chicken and ducks from the market are still being sold in local supermarkets and restaurants, CCTV, the state-run broadcaster, reported yesterday.
Yangjiashan Poultry Wholesale Market sold nearly 40,000 chicken and ducks a day and had a market share of 65 percent in Changsha and surrounding areas.
The vendors were seen on the TV footage of immersing slaughtered birds in a pot containing industrial rosin to remove feathers. A vendor could denude 200 ducks a day, four times faster than using a machine, the report said.
The market management admitted that the industrial rosin they used is toxic, lead-laden, harmful to kidney and liver, and can cause cancer.
But the vendors were reluctant to use edible rosin because its price is twice more expensive as compared with industrial rosin.
But chicken and ducks from the market are still being sold in local supermarkets and restaurants, CCTV, the state-run broadcaster, reported yesterday.
Yangjiashan Poultry Wholesale Market sold nearly 40,000 chicken and ducks a day and had a market share of 65 percent in Changsha and surrounding areas.
The vendors were seen on the TV footage of immersing slaughtered birds in a pot containing industrial rosin to remove feathers. A vendor could denude 200 ducks a day, four times faster than using a machine, the report said.
The market management admitted that the industrial rosin they used is toxic, lead-laden, harmful to kidney and liver, and can cause cancer.
But the vendors were reluctant to use edible rosin because its price is twice more expensive as compared with industrial rosin.
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