1.68 million special funds to detect Clenbuterol

Introduction: the reporter learned from the Municipal Health Bureau yesterday that the Beijing municipal government will allocate 1.68 million yuan this year to carry out spot check on 100 pieces of pork produced and sold in the city every month and announce the inspection results to the society According to Tu Xiaoming, assistant director of the Beijing Center for Disease Control and prevention, the current cost of testing whether a pork contains clenbuterol is 1200 yuan to 1400 yuan, because the test kits, reagents and instruments are all imported from abroad From the initial screening to the final confirmation of each sample, it takes five procedures, five to six days In addition, Wu Yongning, a researcher at the Institute of nutrition and food hygiene of the Chinese Academy of preventive medicine, said yesterday that the domestic reagent and kit for the detection of clenbuterol will be developed in two months, which will greatly reduce the cost of clenbuterol detection For example, the cost of using imported kits for each sample is 80 yuan, while the cost of using domestic kits is less than 40 yuan If every pig entering the Beijing market carries out the detection of clenbuterol with domestic reagents, the price of each kilogram of pork is only a penny more than the original price, but the detection will be greatly strengthened, and the sense of safety of people eating meat will be greatly increased (author:) share to feed Weibo share to: