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Detect irregular poultry slaughterhouses
* Do not meet sanitary standards
El Sol de Cuautla
February 11, 2011
Gabriela Martínez
Cuautla, Morelos .- poultry farms and slaughterhouses operating in the town of Cuautla not meet basic standards of hygiene and protection, including waste that is generated there, such as feathers, blood and guts are thrown without processing into gullies and drainage of the city, found the Municipal Health Bureau.
Andrés López Carrillo, Municipal Health Director, explained during verification tour farms, a few months ago found blockages in the collectors of the city caused by feathers, guts and even bones of some animals, so they were given the task of verifying the poultry and hog slaughterhouses operating in Cuautla.
The result was not encouraging, he said, because they found that without adherence to the standards of health and civil protection, some establishments offer breeding and slaughter of animals in an irregular manner and in precarious conditions.
An example of this is the address located on the street without number Jacona Lazaro Cardenas Extension of this county, where there is a home-room where chickens are reared and slaughtered in unsanitary conditions, lack the necessary infrastructure to ensure the hygiene and animal health.
Besides the serious risk to public health that this entails, residents of that home have expressed their discomfort, as a result of poor parenting practices and killing spread foul odors in the community and generated vermin that are attracted by remains of birds, they are thrown into the ravine of the place.
El Sol de Cuautla found poor conditions in which animals are slaughtered and unsanitary conditions prevailing on this farm since blood, feathers and other viscera were in the open and in the Canyon area, where they are thrown without any processing.
Check the tour staff also attended the Commission for Protection Against Health Risks (Coprisem) in the East zone, the Department of Agricultural Development, Civil Protection personnel and Industry and Trade.
Another point to be checked was the home located on the street June 25 the same extension, where an irregular manner and pigs are reared and birds are slaughtered in unsanitary conditions.
As explained López Carrillo, after finding sites like these observations are made to ensure that its owners comply with the hygiene and cleanliness to the slaughter of animals, if not respect them are entitled to close the place.
Notably, the path verification was carried out in other localities of the city as Tetelcingo Casasano Year Juárez, where farms were also detected operating in unsanitary conditions and trade in animals for human consumption without any control.
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