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Experts have called brands dangerous to health chicken
Some broilers were loaded with antibiotics, others not very fresh.
Astrologers have already made their recommendations on what to serve on the New Year’s Eve – 2021. Of course, no beef, and it is better not to eat pork in the evenings, it’s too heavy food. Ideal is chicken or fish. Moreover, chicken is obviously a much more affordable product. And dangerous. As the experts of Roskontrol have found out, far from all producers of broiler chickens can be trusted.
Chickens of seven brands were selected for examination: Akashevo, Petelinka, Chernyshihinskoe myasto, Domashnaya kurochka, Pervaya svezhestvo, Petrukha, Verkhnevolzhskaya poultry farm. It turned out that only three of them can be bought fearlessly – all the rest have complaints of varying degrees of severity.
Bird of the first freshness
As the hero of the novel “The Master and Margarita” said, there is only one freshness – the first, it is the last. The second simply does not exist. But it is very difficult to assess the freshness of chicken packed in a plastic bag with prints by eye. After all, even the expiration date is not always an assistant here: it happens that before it expires another three days, and the meat has already become sticky.
So, the “second freshness” turned out to be chickens of the Akashevo and Verkhnevolzhskaya poultry farm brands.
“The smell, unusual for fresh meat of this type of poultry, a relatively high peroxide value of fat,” – list the signs of staleness experts.
However, this may not be the manufacturer’s fault, but the whole point is in the conditions of storing the poultry in the store. Indeed, according to the rest of the parameters, the chicken turned out to be completely normal – no antibiotics, no traces of other drugs, the number of bacteria also corresponds to the norms.
Food or medicine?
Many people attribute miraculous properties to chicken broth: they say that it even has an antimicrobial effect, so it helps a sick person recover from a cold. However, some chickens are so loaded with drugs that it is simply dangerous to eat them.
Thus, the antibiotic metronidazole was found in poultry meat from the Domashnyaya Kurochka and Petrukha brands. It should not be in the chicken even in a trace amount.
“To keep the bird from getting sick and to grow faster, most manufacturers use antimicrobial drugs. This is a common practice, and if you stop giving the poultry drugs at least a week before slaughter, then these substances are removed from the body of the bird and do not remain in the meat. Unfortunately, not everyone and not always follow the rules for using such drugs, ”say Roskontrol experts.
In addition, residual traces of drugs were found in the chicken “First Freshness” and “Chernyshihinskoe Meat”. In the first case, enrofloxacin was found, in the second – doxycycline.
“They are approved for use in poultry farming and are contained in meat at a minimal, inactive concentration. They cannot harm, ”the experts explain.
Beauty Matters
All chickens tested were Grade XNUMX chicks, the producers said. And the title of the first-class product obliges: there should be no hemp on the skin, let alone feathers. Nevertheless, both are on the chickens “Akashevo”, “First Freshness”, “Petrukha”, “Petelinka”.
“In terms of the quality of processing, they can be attributed only to the second grade,” the experts conclude.