No problems with chicken supply from Shandong: AVA
By Evelyn Lam | Posted:
24 December 2012 2117 hrs
SINGAPORE: Authorities said Singapore's chicken supply has not been
affected by China's latest tainted food scare.
Some chicken farms in Shandong are now being investigated after
Shanghai authorities found a suspicious level of antibiotics in
chicken from a fast food chain.
Over the last two years, Singapore has imported about 350 kg of
poultry products from Shandong.
But the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) has not found any
problems with the shipment.
Experts said antibiotics are commonly used in chicken farms as they
can protect poultry from diseases while helping them to grow
faster.
But the medication stops about a week before the chickens are
slaughtered to prevent retention of the drug.
"If we ingest a lot of meat that has been tainted with antibiotics,
it may cause a reduction in good (bacterial) flora," said Ms Lee
Yee Lin, veterinary surgeon at Animal Recovery
Centre.
"Sometimes, with traces of penicillin, it can cause allergic
reactions to humans who have penicillin
allergies."
But experts pointed out that excess antibiotics may build immunity
towards some bacteria in animals.
If the animal retains the bacteria, it may be transmitted to human
beings through different ways.
Ms Lee said: "Bacteria may be passed by the environmental factors;
the wind, the dust, the water, or sometimes the bacteria may be
present on the meat itself, so when we handle the raw meat with our
hands and (if) we are not careful and we start ingesting, we are
actually ingesting the bacteria."
AVA said all meat imported are subject to a battery of tests -
including for antibiotics and hormones - before they are allowed to
be sold.
Singapore has not banned any meat imports from China in the last
two years.
- CNA/xq
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In China, Kentucky get their
chickens supply from this company. Those sgporeans going to
China and want to eat Kentucky, please find out how safe it is to
eat the chickens.
So scary, Sg imports chickens from China.
China chickens supplier injected antiobiotic (great in quantity)
and one other thing (in chinese, don't know what that is) to the
chickens to make them grow faster. Indirectly, it can cause
health hazard to those eating the chickens. (Taiwan
News).
Scary!!!!!
Now is importing chickens, what is next? Import calamine
milk powder?? 
