Consumer agency director Altagracia Paulino.
Santo Domingo.- Locally manufactured salamis could have 50% less meat protein, according to the new rules on its production, revealed pork producer Pedro Jose Fabelo, who participated at the meeting yesterday of the Standards and Quality Systems Agency’s (Digenor) Technical Committee.
The announcement comes weeks after the scandal over a study’s findings of fecal coliform and low protein levels in salami, and pig farmers’ complaint that sausage makers were buying less pork.
In the Committee, which approved the new standard for the manufacture of sausages, also participated the Consumer Agency Protection (Pro-Consumer) whose representative also voted for the amendment, Fabelo said. Meat processors and public health authorities were also in the meeting.
The current meat protein levels is 22% for premium salami, 20% for the special and 16% for the standard, and will now fall to 13%, 10% and 8%, respectively.
From: United States
"less meat" more fecal matter?
Written by: josean, 10 Aug 2012 8:30 AM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
Eh Pa'lante Que Vamos
From: United States
yes, gmiller. more sawdust, wood shavings, styrofoam chips, and bat dung. mmm, good.
From: United States, New York
Why don't they just get something that smells and looks like meat.......in fact, why bother with meat at all? Dreadlocks is right!!!!!
Written by: Atabey, 10 Aug 2012 11:19 AM
From: United States, NYC
So What Really Is In A
McDonald's Chicken McNugget?
Chicken McPoison
According to the handout, McNuggets also contain several completely synthetic ingredients, quasiedible substances that ultimately come not from a corn or soybean field but form a petroleum refinery or chemical plant. These chemicals are what make modern processed food possible, by keeping the organic materials in them from going bad or looking strange after months in the freezer or on the road. Listed first are the "leavening agents": sodium aluminum phosphate, mono-calcium phosphate, sodium acid pyrophosphate, and calcium lactate. These are antioxidants added to keep the various animal and vegetable fats involved in a nugget from turning rancid. Then there are "anti-foaming agents" like dimethylpolysiloxene, added to the cooking oil to keep the starches from binding to air molecules, so as to produce foam during the fry. The problem is evidently grave enough to warrant adding a toxic chemical to the food:
Written by: Atabey, 10 Aug 2012 11:20 AM
From: United States, NYC
According to the Handbook of Food Additives, dimethylpolysiloxene is a suspected carcinogen and an established mutagen, tumorigen, and reproductive effector; it's also flammable.
But perhaps the most alarming ingredient in a Chicken McNugget is tertiary butylhydroquinone, or TBHQ, an antioxidant derived from petroleum that is either sprayed directly on the nugget or the inside of the box it comes in to "help preserve freshness." According to A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives, TBHQ is a form of butane (i.e. lighter fluid) the FDA allows processors to use sparingly in our food: It can comprise no more than 0.02 percent of the oil in a nugget. Which is probably just as well, considering that ingesting a single gram of TBHQ can cause "nausea, vomiting, ringing in the ears, delirium, a sense of suffocation, and collapse." Ingesting five grams of TBHQ can kill."
Bet you never thought that was in your chicken McNuggets!
From: United States, New York
I don't know if this is entirely true, Atabey, but even if 1/2 of it is true, then keep me away from those things!! I know that the McD hamburger is a mix of some kind of meat slurry....but those vegi meat substitutes taste like something you would want to give to your horse!!
No easy answers.
Sgt.
Written by: Atabey, 10 Aug 2012 11:24 AM
From: United States, NYC
I agree with those who would never have Salami from the DR until the product reached International standards of quality. I remember thirty years ago while in Santiago for Summer vacation when a cousin told me to never eat the stuff.
I've had the product here in the States, but after those words of caution from my cousin, never again in DR.
Written by: josean, 10 Aug 2012 11:25 AM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
So this excuses CACA and carcinogens in our products?
From: United States
@Josean-"So this excuses CACA and carcinogens in our products?"
No.. you are missing the point. People condemn and ridicule the DR for not keeping up sanitary standards, as if we were savage animals, or stone age people, but even the most advance and powerful nations are not exactly guilt free.
What could be finer than a little feces in your spices or a cigarette butt in your sandwich? Perhaps some rat hair in your peanut butter? Sounds disgusting, but the Food and Drug Administration says that contamination is unavoidable and allows for small amount of "filth" to enter commercially processed food produced for human consumption.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has decided that allowing insects like mites and maggots is perfectly acceptable, provided they don’t hinder the “aesthetic” quality of foods. Aesthetic or not, do you want to eat caterpillars? In the United States, it’s estimated that the average person unintentionally eats a pound of insects every year.
From: United States
In summary and realistically speaking, pesticides and preservatives used by rich and advanced nations to kill bugs and add shelf life to produce are much more harmful to consumers health than a few bug parts and the supposedly far worse fecal coliforms. The presence of coliforms only helps to demonstrates potential contaminants and does not necessarily indicate the absolute existence of fecal matter. It is only use as a measuring stick to give us advance warning in case there is actual foreign matter in the food we eat beyond safe and acceptable levels that is fit for human consumption.
Written by: josean, 10 Aug 2012 12:08 PM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
"No.. you are missing the point."
I thinks it is from you that the Point escapes!
"The point" is that you are trying to infer that because the Mighty Colossus from the north does it should somehow make us feel better.
I am not in a Nationalistic Competition with the US nor do I have underdevelopment complex where I have to live my life as a Dominican juxtaposed to the US or any other "First" world country.
The point is it’s unhealthily and disgusting wherever it happens.
In DR this recent incident was known since January and it was suppressed from public knowledge for 6 months; that’s the real Point; Denying the Public Right to Know!
From: United States
No.... GI Joe.......you missed the point again. You were too busy in combact, dealing with flashbacks of battle strategies while you were at war, and reacted in your usual defensive stance and as consequence lost the gist of the meaning in the message I wish to convey. Just please take a few extra minutes to think about what I wrote and then perhaps we can talk. Otherwise, just continue on with your Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome. (PTSD)
From: United States
the difference is, Atabey, that poor people do not eat McNuggets as a part of their daily diet, in the USA. on the other hand, without salami, Dominicans of lesser means are up a creek.
From: United States
I aet some small Pieces of salami in dr and my stomach went crazy! Damn, i wonder now! I was eating shittt lol
From: Dominican Republic, Puerto Plata
We are what we eat.
No wonder so many of us are so full of scnitt..
Written by: danny00, 10 Aug 2012 4:47 PM
From: United States, syosset, key west, santo domingo AND NOW THE GLOBE TROTTER
Written by: Atabey, 10 Aug 2012 11:19 AM
From: United States, NYC
So What Really Is In A
McDonald's Chicken McNugget?
Chicken McPoison
SO WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH THE PROBLEMS IN THE DR.?
Written by: danny00, 10 Aug 2012 4:50 PM
From: United States, syosset, key west, santo domingo AND NOW THE GLOBE TROTTER
come on guys its all good in the dr, even your meds are best in the world.
phoney salamis, phoney meds and phoney police and for sure phoney pres of the dr.
but the choo choo train is great and as is the blue mall.
all aboard.
From: United States
Does anyone know which store in the Blue Mall sells Dominican Salami. I want to take one home as souvenir when I head back to the states.
Written by: Atabey, 13 Aug 2012 8:35 AM
From: United States, NYC
"Written by: guillermone, 10 Aug 2012 11:56 AM
From: United States
@Josean-"So this excuses CACA and carcinogens in our products?"
No.. you are missing the point. People condemn and ridicule the DR for not keeping up sanitary standards, as if we were savage animals, or stone age people, but even the most advance and powerful nations are not exactly guilt free. "
Why is it SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO difficult for Josean and Dready to get the point?
From: United States, New York
No country wants to poison its people. But, some are willing to take greater chance than others....for many reasons...corruption is but only one.....
I suggest we force the owners of meat packing plants to pay heavy fines and risk the closing of their plants if there is a continued pattern of contaminated meat getting into the public domain.
lc
From: United States
asks Atabey
Why is it SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO difficult for Josean and Dready to get the point?
because this is DominicanToday, and not Ithappensin otherparts of the worldtoday.
secondly, if this was discovered in the USA, businesses would be padlocked the same day. i do not know which America you live in, but the Department of Health shuts down several restaurants in New York, every day, for what would seem to be minor violations. thirdly, in the USA, if i eat in your restaurant, and get sick, my attorney will have your head for lunch. in the DR, i just sit on the toilet seat until i recover.
Written by: josean, 13 Aug 2012 4:38 PM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
Dr. Dread goto easy on the intellectual impersonator!
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"less meat" more fecal matter?
Eh Pa'lante Que Vamos
McDonald's Chicken McNugget?
Chicken McPoison
According to the handout, McNuggets also contain several completely synthetic ingredients, quasiedible substances that ultimately come not from a corn or soybean field but form a petroleum refinery or chemical plant. These chemicals are what make modern processed food possible, by keeping the organic materials in them from going bad or looking strange after months in the freezer or on the road. Listed first are the "leavening agents": sodium aluminum phosphate, mono-calcium phosphate, sodium acid pyrophosphate, and calcium lactate. These are antioxidants added to keep the various animal and vegetable fats involved in a nugget from turning rancid. Then there are "anti-foaming agents" like dimethylpolysiloxene, added to the cooking oil to keep the starches from binding to air molecules, so as to produce foam during the fry. The problem is evidently grave enough to warrant adding a toxic chemical to the food:
According to the Handbook of Food Additives, dimethylpolysiloxene is a suspected carcinogen and an established mutagen, tumorigen, and reproductive effector; it's also flammable.
But perhaps the most alarming ingredient in a Chicken McNugget is tertiary butylhydroquinone, or TBHQ, an antioxidant derived from petroleum that is either sprayed directly on the nugget or the inside of the box it comes in to "help preserve freshness." According to A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives, TBHQ is a form of butane (i.e. lighter fluid) the FDA allows processors to use sparingly in our food: It can comprise no more than 0.02 percent of the oil in a nugget. Which is probably just as well, considering that ingesting a single gram of TBHQ can cause "nausea, vomiting, ringing in the ears, delirium, a sense of suffocation, and collapse." Ingesting five grams of TBHQ can kill."
Bet you never thought that was in your chicken McNuggets!
No easy answers.
Sgt.
I agree with those who would never have Salami from the DR until the product reached International standards of quality. I remember thirty years ago while in Santiago for Summer vacation when a cousin told me to never eat the stuff.
I've had the product here in the States, but after those words of caution from my cousin, never again in DR.
So this excuses CACA and carcinogens in our products?
No.. you are missing the point. People condemn and ridicule the DR for not keeping up sanitary standards, as if we were savage animals, or stone age people, but even the most advance and powerful nations are not exactly guilt free.
What could be finer than a little feces in your spices or a cigarette butt in your sandwich? Perhaps some rat hair in your peanut butter? Sounds disgusting, but the Food and Drug Administration says that contamination is unavoidable and allows for small amount of "filth" to enter commercially processed food produced for human consumption.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has decided that allowing insects like mites and maggots is perfectly acceptable, provided they don’t hinder the “aesthetic” quality of foods. Aesthetic or not, do you want to eat caterpillars? In the United States, it’s estimated that the average person unintentionally eats a pound of insects every year.
"No.. you are missing the point."
I thinks it is from you that the Point escapes!
"The point" is that you are trying to infer that because the Mighty Colossus from the north does it should somehow make us feel better.
I am not in a Nationalistic Competition with the US nor do I have underdevelopment complex where I have to live my life as a Dominican juxtaposed to the US or any other "First" world country.
The point is it’s unhealthily and disgusting wherever it happens.
In DR this recent incident was known since January and it was suppressed from public knowledge for 6 months; that’s the real Point; Denying the Public Right to Know!
No.... GI Joe.......you missed the point again. You were too busy in combact, dealing with flashbacks of battle strategies while you were at war, and reacted in your usual defensive stance and as consequence lost the gist of the meaning in the message I wish to convey. Just please take a few extra minutes to think about what I wrote and then perhaps we can talk. Otherwise, just continue on with your Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome. (PTSD)
No wonder so many of us are so full of scnitt..
From: United States, NYC
So What Really Is In A
McDonald's Chicken McNugget?
Chicken McPoison
SO WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH THE PROBLEMS IN THE DR.?
phoney salamis, phoney meds and phoney police and for sure phoney pres of the dr.
but the choo choo train is great and as is the blue mall.
all aboard.
"Written by: guillermone, 10 Aug 2012 11:56 AM
From: United States
@Josean-"So this excuses CACA and carcinogens in our products?"
No.. you are missing the point. People condemn and ridicule the DR for not keeping up sanitary standards, as if we were savage animals, or stone age people, but even the most advance and powerful nations are not exactly guilt free. "
Why is it SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO difficult for Josean and Dready to get the point?
I suggest we force the owners of meat packing plants to pay heavy fines and risk the closing of their plants if there is a continued pattern of contaminated meat getting into the public domain.
lc
Why is it SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO difficult for Josean and Dready to get the point?
because this is DominicanToday, and not Ithappensin otherparts of the worldtoday.
secondly, if this was discovered in the USA, businesses would be padlocked the same day. i do not know which America you live in, but the Department of Health shuts down several restaurants in New York, every day, for what would seem to be minor violations. thirdly, in the USA, if i eat in your restaurant, and get sick, my attorney will have your head for lunch. in the DR, i just sit on the toilet seat until i recover.
Dr. Dread goto easy on the intellectual impersonator!