Poultry market shut down
By Li Qian |
April 10, 2012, Tuesday
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A wholesale poultry market in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province, was shut down after vendors were caught using a cancer-causing chemical to remove bird feathers.
The carcinogenic industrial rosin was used on chickens and ducks, which are still being sold in local supermarkets and restaurants, reported China Central Television, the state-run broadcaster.
Yangjiashan Poultry Wholesale Market, the biggest in Changsha, sold nearly 40,000 chickens and ducks a day and had a market share of 65 percent in the Changsha region.
The vendors were seen on the TV footage immersing slaughtered birds in a pot containing industrial rosin to remove feathers. A vendor could denude 200 ducks a day, four times more than using a feather-removal machine.
Managers admitted that the industrial rosin they used was toxic, lead-laden, harmful to the kidney and liver, and could cause cancer.
But the vendors were reluctant to use edible rosin because it costs twice as much. They even reused the industrial rosin to save more cost.
"The rosin is so expensive that we have to reuse it, otherwise, we will gain nothing," an unnamed vendor told CCTV.
The industrial rosin was so popular in the market that law-enforcement officials seized several kilograms of it in just one of the 80-plus stalls.
The carcinogenic industrial rosin was used on chickens and ducks, which are still being sold in local supermarkets and restaurants, reported China Central Television, the state-run broadcaster.
Yangjiashan Poultry Wholesale Market, the biggest in Changsha, sold nearly 40,000 chickens and ducks a day and had a market share of 65 percent in the Changsha region.
The vendors were seen on the TV footage immersing slaughtered birds in a pot containing industrial rosin to remove feathers. A vendor could denude 200 ducks a day, four times more than using a feather-removal machine.
Managers admitted that the industrial rosin they used was toxic, lead-laden, harmful to the kidney and liver, and could cause cancer.
But the vendors were reluctant to use edible rosin because it costs twice as much. They even reused the industrial rosin to save more cost.
"The rosin is so expensive that we have to reuse it, otherwise, we will gain nothing," an unnamed vendor told CCTV.
The industrial rosin was so popular in the market that law-enforcement officials seized several kilograms of it in just one of the 80-plus stalls.
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