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How not to be fooled when buying beef or pork. Producers and sellers use all possible methods, to earn. Therefore, on sale you can find meat of patients animals or pumped up with antibiotics.
If the meat is very chubby, swollen, most likely, it was pumped carrageenan or polyphosphates. These substances increase weight. moisture-retaining product; be sure to sniff before buying a piece. The meat should smell like meat. If the smell is right missing, the product may have been spoiled and, in order to recapture it musty; it was washed and treated with potassium permanganate or chlorine. Resuscitation of spoiled meat is often done by shops. There spoiled product can be washed, remove odors, add chemistry. Therefore, it is better to buy the product in the factory packaging. Note: the meat that is packaged in the store is worth date of packaging, not production. Farmers do not have special apparatus for the injection of chemicals. Therefore, private traders are you rather buy a product without impurities. But large plants can use supplements. It’s not prohibited by law, but often greatly overstated. In the market and in the store, ask sellers The original, not a copy of the certificate of conformity. It should be on it round stamp and recent date. In the markets this certificate issues sanitary inspection service. She must check every carcass and put round seals on them.
