That contaminated meat has kept being illegally sold to the market is considered as one of the reasons why prices of live hog and poultry have remained low or even reduced recently. If authorized bodies do not strictly control the quantity of contaminated meat currently being kept at refrigerated warehouses, not only consumers’ health will be affected but also millions of household breeders nationwide will be pushed into misery due to low output prices.
Silverside price movement in several markets (VND/kg)
Source: www.agro.gov.vn
Main movements and trends:
- Pork supplies to HCMC’s two wholesale markets increase again
- Wholesale prices of live hog at HCMC’s two wholesale markets drop to VND 34,500/kg
- Live hog price in Da Nang increases 4.5%
- Ham price in Can Tho falls to VND 59,000/kg during the week
- In the South, live industrial chicken and Tam Hoang chicken increase VND 1,000/kg in price
- More 40 tons of contaminated meat is detected illegally sold to the market
- Meat import value in Sep 2009 kept going down compared with Aug 2009 and the same period of 2008
According to "Vietnam food market weekly Report" - AGROINFO, www.agro.gov.vn
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