Not in sync
Currently in town. Hai Phong has more than 900 livestock and poultry farms and slaughterhouses, of which only 6 are concentrated in operation, the rest are small slaughterhouses in operation, so the control of slaughter between veterinary authorities and local authorities is not synchronized .
Basically, small and illegal slaughterhouses do not have the slaughter control of the authorities according to regulations. In most markets, the management and control of small slaughterhouses are still insufficient, slaughtering is widespread, there are insufficient conditions for veterinary hygiene, food safety and the risk of disease spread. .
Mr. Nguyen Van Kinh, head of An Duong District Animal Health Station, said that there are more than 80 small slaughterhouses and one concentrated poultry slaughterhouse in the district. Disease control and veterinary hygiene in central slaughterhouses always have 2 veterinarians on duty, so they are basically guaranteed from input to output, while in small slaughterhouses there is almost no disease control.
“Every day a small farm slaughter a few animals, the control is controlled by the locality, we have almost no control, the localities only stop signing a commitment to ensure food hygiene and safety with the farms, diseases and the assurance of veterinary hygiene is almost non-existent,” said Mr. Kinh.
According to research, I don’t run and oversee the small operations every day. Samples are taken at the markets every month, sometimes there are samples to detect bird flu viruses and African swine fever. Most small slaughterhouses do not have a mandatory veterinary hygiene control, slaughter control mark or veterinary hygiene control mark.
By de facto recognition, it is worrying that the control of veterinary hygiene and disease in small slaughterhouses is currently devolved to local authorities, but in reality the effectiveness is very low as they do not have the strength or expertise to take responsibility take over.
Mr Nguyen Van Thuy, chairman of the An Duong City People’s Committee, said that people buy and kill themselves and sell themselves, the government only controls in terms of state administration, but local officials have no veterinary expertise.
“The city’s veterinary office takes care of livestock and epidemics, while the proper running of the slaughterhouses is entrusted to the cultural office. The input is almost uncontrollable, how many local slaughterhouses per day is difficult to record, so the risk of disease from slaughterhouses is very high,” said Thuy.
Mr. Bui Van Luyen, deputy director of the Hai Phong Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Sub-department, said veterinary forces play an important role in controlling entry and exit from slaughterhouses as there are problems with poultry and livestock. Slaughter control is the control of food circulating in the market that limits the spread of disease and helps prevent disease from occurring.
Currently in some farms there is an epidemic situation, that is, when the disease appears because the owner of the farm does not report it to the government, but silently sells it on the market at a bargain price in order to save some capital. This brought the disease out invisibly. Therefore, if slaughter control is not carried out properly, the risk of disease outbreaks in slaughterhouses is very high.
Solve
In fact, in recent years, Hai Phong has seen animal outbreaks in small livestock households that have not implemented biosecurity breeding practices well, purchased seeds of unknown origin, and transmitted germs. Diseases are transported to the Breeding by traders from epidemic areas, causing epidemics to arise and spread.
On the other hand, in some live poultry and food markets in Hai Phong city, the latest surveillance results still show the spread of African swine fever virus and avian flu virus on meat samples: pork, sausage, spring rolls,…
Therefore, it is difficult for the food supply of cities, industrial clusters and industrial areas to have the best, safe and hygienic products, which may pose a risk of disease spread and outbreaks.
According to Hai Phong Department of Livestock and Veterinary Medicine, control of slaughter in the city in the past period. Hai Phong has been actively implemented by the officials and makes an important contribution to the prevention of animal diseases. However, there are also some objective problems affecting epidemic prevention and control in general that need to be solved soon.
For example, the planning of concentrated cattle and poultry slaughterhouses and the planning of concentrated cattle breeding areas in Hai Phong have expired by 2020, but the implementation of the planning law in 2018 does not allow municipalities to develop specialized plans.
Therefore, it must be integrated into the general planning of provinces and cities according to the government-mandated list, in which there is no regulation on planning concentrated slaughterhouses and concentrated breeding areas, causing difficulties for municipalities to implement centralized management of livestock and slaughter .
Also, the title of quarantine officer who performs the task of quarantine and control of animal slaughter is required by regulation to be an officer, however, currently the Subdivision of Livestock and Veterinary Medicine has 5 officers assigned to this task. Quarantine , slaughter control, unable to fulfill the task of implementing > 10,000 sets of quarantine records per year and slaughter control in 6 concentrated slaughterhouses scattered across the districts, the district and the entire island district of Cat Hai.
Mr. Bui Van Luyen, deputy chief of Hai Phong’s Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Division, confirmed that the unit has authorized officials from the district and district animal husbandry and veterinary stations to carry out quarantine duties and control slaughter in the administrative area.
On the other hand, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has advised the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to coordinate with sectors and communities to integrate special plans, including planning to build slaughterhouses, which focus on the city’s general planning.
Provide land funds for implementation, encourage organizations and individuals to invest in the construction and perfection of the system of concentrated cattle and poultry slaughterhouses according to planning, and gradually eliminate slaughterhouses Small and scattered livestock and poultry stocks do not ensure veterinary sanitation, food safety and environmental hygiene . Simultaneously coordinate with the city’s intersectoral inspection team and district steering committees to inspect food hygiene and safety and handle cases of illegal slaughter of livestock and poultry in violation of regulations.
In order to protect people’s health and the environment and prevent epidemics, in addition to the control, control and increase of owners of livestock and poultry slaughterhouses and meat plants, they must improve their responsibilities and obligations, and strictly implement them according to the law.
Consumers are advised to choose post-slaughter animal and poultry products with the slaughter control mark “KSGM” on the carcass, with a veterinary hygiene control stamp on the packaged snakehead product.
“If you want to increase the production of controlled livestock and poultry slaughter products, you should promote the development of more centralized slaughterhouses to control and gradually eliminate the conditions of veterinary hygiene and food safety, and put an end to small-scale slaughtering of food that meet food hygiene and safety standards for people in the city and help protect the environment,” said Luyen.
In particular, according to Mr. Luyen, Paragraph 3, Article 76 of the Veterinary Medicine Act 2015 clearly states: “People’s committees at municipal level are responsible for the management of the operations of small animal slaughterhouses”. Therefore, the veterinary sector urgently needs the drastic intervention of the township people’s committee and good implementation of the planning and implementation of the planning of concentrated livestock and poultry slaughterhouses in the city. Hai Phong contributing to the end of pollution and food insecurity from slaughter today.
According to the latest reported data, the whole city. Hai Phong currently has 936 livestock farms, 773 poultry farms (202 medium-sized farms; 571 small farms), accounting for 51.82% of the total pig herd and 51.14% of the total poultry herd 11,460 household-scale pig farms.