The head of Consumer Protection accuses that some manufacturers color…

Some producers dye chicken meat to mislead customers, accused, on Wednesday, the president of the National Authority for Consumer Protection (ANPC), Horia Constantinescu.

He explained, through a post on Facebook, that some chickens are fed with different substances that enter their tissues, and as a result the meat of the birds turns yellow, which makes it more attractive to potential customers, who thus associate them with chickens House.

“There is a saying that you walk with a painted crow. But here the modern version refers to the dyed chicken. There are economic operators who color their products to mislead us. But here too a miracle happens: some of the chickens are dyed by feeding, so that the dye penetrates the fabric and cannot be washed off”, Constantinescu wrote on his Facebook page.

The text is accompanied by several images, including one with two cut chickens, placed in containers filled with water, which seem to have lost their color on certain parts of the skin, notes Hotnews.ro.

In addition, he also published a capture with the prospectus of a feed additive, which according to the document is “for use in the mixture, in the finished feed, for the additional pigmentation of the skin of the birds and the coloring of the egg yolk”. It is obtained from Marigold flower extract.

The head of the ANPC also wrote that “there is great commotion among those who should have drawn attention to this phenomenon” and that “desperate arguments are being sought to show that our authority would have nothing to look for along the entire route of the painted chickens”. However, Constantinescu did not clearly state which person or institution he is talking about.

Horia Constantinescu characterized this practice as “a serious attack” on people’s safety and added that, in some cases, the Commissioners for Consumer Protection also found cases of salmonella at some farms.

“Interestingly, and please read the leaflet, the eggs also take on a different color once food mixed with our trick products is used.
If we also add the ingredient salmonella, discovered on some farms by our colleagues, under the conditions that there should be serious, not superficial, filters at each of these structures, then the dyed chicken also becomes a danger to our health. We are facing a serious assault on the safety of each of us: chickens yellowed to look better, contaminated with dangerous strains of salmonella. This is what I call a “tasty” dish”, said the head of ANPC.

He concluded by stating that “today, we will send information to absolutely all the institutions that can verify how this situation came to be and who covered the truth”.