Africa-Press – Angola. Veterinary doctor Juliana Mafuca asked, this Monday, in Huambo, for a ban on the sale of perishable foods, such as meat, chicken and fruit, outdoors, with the aim of avoiding possible cases of food poisoning.
With regard to foodborne illnesses, he said that perishable foods, when placed in the open or poorly preserved, bring many dangers to public health, as the loss of salubrity and the desired quality, carry different bacteria and viruses that can cause food poisoning.
He regretted the fact that meat, chicken, fish and other perishable foods are exposed to the open air in informal markets, being prone to dust, flies and lack of hygiene, constituting an attack on human health.
The veterinarian denounced the constant slaughter of beef and pork in informal markets without being vaccinated and with unfavorable hygiene conditions, which can lead to diseases such as tuberculosis, food poisoning, neurocysticercosis (which allows the brain to stop) and lepitorisis.
Therefore, he appealed to the Angolan Executive to create laws that oblige the population to buy only meat slaughtered in slaughterhouses, as they are places where they have veterinarians, for the diagnosis of the animals before they are consumed.
To put this measure into effect, he asked for greater concertation between the Government and veterinarians, for the creation of small slaughterhouses, fishmongers and butchers in all informal markets in the country, for the good nutritional health of the population, thus avoiding diseases transmitted from animals for men.
He defended the placement of veterinarians in the country’s informal markets, for the reorganization of the process of slaughtering animals, as well as to sensitize sellers and citizens about the dangers of exposing food in the open air.
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