Sausages are among the world’s favourite foods. They’re delicious and go well with drinks, with fried and grilled sausages a perfect match for beer. They can be part of a meal but are mostly enjoyed as a snack. Children in particular love to order them in fast-food and convenience stores.  However, when this processed food product is not made to the highest of standards, it can be harmful to the health, causing food poisoning or building up in the body with often disastrous effects.

 

In the wake of recent reports about sub-standard sausages, deputy secretary-general of the Thai Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Weerachai Nolwachai, recommends that consumers carefully check the packaging for an official FDA seal before purchasing.

 

Weerachai explained that the seal comes with registration numbers, product name, producer information, manufacturing date, and expiry or best before date. It also has information on ingredients, preservatives, and net weight.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/delicious-sausages-may-pose-health-risks/

 

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About the last meat product on Earth I would choose to eat........God knows what is in them.

Unless you've been living in a cave with a sack over your head, you know sausage is a horribly unhealthy tube of mystery meat. Must be a slow news day.

Delicious sausages may pose health risks

Those things from 7 11 arew a lot of things but they are not delicious!!!

1 minute ago, nikmar said:

Delicious sausages may pose health risks

Those things from 7 11 arew a lot of things but they are not delicious!!!

Perhaps they are impregnated with mind control drugs ?

10 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

About the last meat product on Earth I would choose to eat........God knows what is in them.

All the remains from the butcher room floor, swept up with phosphates added....cancer in a casing.

Otto von Bismarck famously said "Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made." In Thailand we can definitely reverse this and have it be equally relevant.

2 minutes ago, Excel said:

Perhaps they are impregnated with mind control drugs ?

.....sausage and chips.....Bill Gates recipe..

I am beyond redemption, I love sausages. Cumberland, Bratwurst, chorizo, boerewors, sai ua - bring them on.

I defy any bacteria to live in sai ua, it's like expecting an Eskimo to live on the equator.

At age 78, I guess my lifelong addiction to sausages has boosted my immune system.

 

Why did they use the word 'sausages' in the headline when the story is about hot dogs.

There is nothing in this story about real sausages.

 

Also, as they are talking about local made hot dogs, they should define their understanding of the word 'delicious'.

 

1 minute ago, Bert got kinky said:

 

Why did they use the word 'sausages' in the headline when the story is about hot dogs.

There is nothing in this story about real sausages.

 

Also, as they are talking about local made hot dogs, they should define their understanding of the word 'delicious'.

 

A hot dog is a kind of sausage, while a sausage is a generic term that describes any combination of meat, seasonings, fat, preservatives, and fillers, injected into a cylindrical casing. Most of the time, hot dogs are eaten without the skin, whereas sausages can be eaten with or without the skin (depending on the brand).

Did they come up with this all by themselves ... such insight.

"However, when this processed food product is not made to the highest of standards, it can be harmful to the health"

I`ve yet to meet a Thai lady that does not enjoy a tasty sausage.......

10 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

A hot dog is a kind of sausage, while a sausage is a generic term that describes any combination of meat, seasonings, fat, preservatives, and fillers, injected into a cylindrical casing. Most of the time, hot dogs are eaten without the skin, whereas sausages can be eaten with or without the skin (depending on the brand).

 

Sorry but I disagree with this, I will never refer to the Thai street hot dogs as sausages.

If I ordered a full English breakfast and got hot dogs instead of sausages, I would send it back.

 

To hell with the dictionary definition, calling the slop that comes out of Pizza Hut 'pizza' doesn't make it so...

 

Politics is like sausages, you don't want to watch either being made.

We are all going to die.....

2 hours ago, Lacessit said:

I am beyond redemption, I love sausages. Cumberland, Bratwurst, chorizo, boerewors, sai ua - bring them on.

I defy any bacteria to live in sai ua, it's like expecting an Eskimo to live on the equator.

At age 78, I guess my lifelong addiction to sausages has boosted my immune system.

I'm guilty as well. Love me some cajun anduoille ( pork or chicken), Italian hot sausage,  chorizo, Polish, and of course German sausages. I don't eat them regularly but do enjoyed them on occasions. 

1 hour ago, petermik said:

I`ve yet to meet a Thai lady that does not enjoy a tasty sausage.......

You put pepper, salt and tomato sauce on it?

10 minutes ago, BayArea said:

I'm guilty as well. Love me some cajun anduoille ( pork or chicken), Italian hot sausage,  chorizo, Polish, and of course German sausages. I don't eat them regularly but do enjoyed them on occasions. 

Damn, forgot the cajun sausage. Had it in New Orleans several times, quite addictive food there.

No just the Blue stamp on the end of it before giving it to her, now thats kinky.....tattoo

5 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

No just the Blue stamp on the end of it before giving it to her, now thats kinky.....tattoo

Do you mind? I'm just about to have lunch.

The fear-mongering never ends does it.  ????

2 hours ago, KhunLA said:

Did they come up with this all by themselves ... such insight.

"However, when this processed food product is not made to the highest of standards, it can be harmful to the health"

In a long discussion with my respected doctor in Australia I asked him what I can do to limit my chances of heart attach and/or stroke. A quick summay of his response:

 

- A big reducion in alcohol intake and stop altogether if you can.

- Reduce coffee down to 1 cup/mug per day, in the morning.

- Plenty of fresh water, e,g, 4 or 5 big glasses of water every day and after exercise/walk around the block etc. He agrees with the concept of waking up once or twice during the night to drink a glass of water.

- Take a blood thinner every day (same time of day if you can, e.g. Cardiprin).

- Reduce the oversall size of meals if you can.

- Reduce red meat a lot.

- Zero processed meats; sausages, cooked ham, etc., etc.

- Ensure you have fruit and veg every day / several times every day, doctors' own diet (re fruit and veg etc.), one orange, one apple, one banana every day and any other fruit on hand and at least one carrot every day, potatoes and cooked onions etc., regularly but potatoes in small quantities.

- Garlic every day, can be garlic tablets if you find eating garlic raw or cooked to be unpleasant.

- Daily exercise, even just a walk around the block.

 

That's all I can remember. 

 

6 minutes ago, connda said:

The fear-mongering never ends does it.  ????

Fear mongering, can you expand on this for at least me....I mean it is known that most sausages/hot dogs etc...are known carcinogens and cancer causing.  Not scaremongering but at least one knows what's possible.

 

https://www.bannerhealth.com/healthcareblog/teach-me/who-hot-dogs-and-sausages-cause-cancer-now-what

The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified processed meat as carcinogenic, or cancer-causing, to humans. It’s in the same category as cigarettes and alcohol. Think about that for a second. Cigarettes, alcohol, processed meat. All bad for you.

2 hours ago, petermik said:

I`ve yet to meet a Thai lady that does not enjoy a tasty sausage.......

 

35 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

You put pepper, salt and tomato sauce on it?

embellishments not necessary as it`s all meat...a real treat ????

Good Lord ! It's groundhog day.

 

At the risk of repeating myself (adopting the spirit used by ASEAN Now), do we have to have the exact same articles regurgitated several times over a couple of weeks period ? Is there no screening taking place to maximise fresh content, is there no 'new' news ??

 

I expect you can only milk the multiple clicks and interactions on duplicates for so long before members will get bored.... 

 

 

3 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

All the remains from the butcher room floor, swept up with phosphates added....cancer in a casing.

It depends on who made them, where they were bought from. 

 

I used to make my own, and I knew what went into them. but the price of pork now is to high to do it.

 

Last night my son and I had sausage and mash, onions, garlic and gravy which was tasty. They were Cumberland pork sausages from Makro but tasted nothing like the ones that I used to eat back in the UK. 

6 minutes ago, petermik said:

 

embellishments not necessary as it`s all meat...a real treat ????

As Clara Peller would say "Wheres the Beef" 

2 hours ago, Bert got kinky said:

 

Why did they use the word 'sausages' in the headline when the story is about hot dogs.

There is nothing in this story about real sausages.

 

Also, as they are talking about local made hot dogs, they should define their understanding of the word 'delicious'.

 

Correct. Real sausages  are made with fresh  ground meat. The smoked hot dogs,  save lots and weiners  etc are not sausages,  are not fresh and indeed are loaded with chemicals  not found in real sausages. Its a misleading image, headline and article and a story two decades old.

11 minutes ago, realfunster said:

Good Lord ! It's groundhog day.

 

At the risk of repeating myself (adopting the spirit used by ASEAN Now), do we have to have the exact same articles regurgitated several times over a couple of weeks period ? Is there no screening taking place to maximise fresh content, is there no 'new' news ??

 

I expect you can only milk the multiple clicks and interactions on duplicates for so long before members will get bored.... 

 

 

That not very fair is it to the hard working editorial team?