25 tonnes of meat soaked in formalin seized from Chonburi illegal meat processing plant

[Orinoco]

1 minute ago, ozimoron said:

The only BBQ I ever eat is fresh squid when its on Beach Road. And never beef or pork for several years now.

Does it not taste of petrol and diesel with a gritty texture. 

[ozimoron]

1 minute ago, Orinoco said:

Does it not taste of petrol and diesel with a gritty texture. 

One of my biggest disappointments in returning to Thailand after an absence of 25 years was the near impossibility of buying any kind of wild caught ocean fish here now.

[Yme]

Scum. Pure scum. Should be 10 years minimum jail for anyone who adulterates food. 

[Orinoco]

1 minute ago, ozimoron said:

One of my biggest disappointments in returning to Thailand after an absence of 25 years was the near impossibility of buying any kind of wild caught ocean fish here now.

If you are in the Jomtien area, early morning about 5-6  o'clock  half way along beach road, there is a few fishing boats selling what they just caught that night. ( it's  not  cheap, but fresh )

[ozimoron]

2 minutes ago, Orinoco said:

If you are in the Jomtien area, early morning about 5-6  o'clock  half way along beach road, there is a few fishing boats selling what they just caught that night. ( it's  not  cheap, but fresh )

There's still the remnants of a trawler wharf right in the middle of walking street where you could sit and eat fresh cooked food right off the trawlers. Back in the 80's. Maybe even later. They used to tie up about 9PM.

[overherebc]

5 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Very worrying situation.....barbecue shops off the list!

Never been on mine.

[BE88]

3 hours ago, worgeordie said:

You said it yourself , unrefrigerated  ,the Formalin stops it going bad .....

regards Worgeordie

Okay but then why was there a nauseating smell around? Had they saved on the amount of Formalin ?

 

BTW Bon appetit or not

 

[overherebc]

2 hours ago, jacko45k said:

KFC?

And don't forget all the dog shot that dries to a powder in the heat and blows around with all the other dust and stuff.

[xylophone]

13 minutes ago, Yme said:

Scum. Pure scum. Should be 10 years minimum jail for anyone who adulterates food. 

Well my old mum would certainly qualify with what she could do to food!!!!

[Johnnyngai]

I do not eat any seafood when I am in Chiang Mai, 

formalin is much cheaper then refrigerated trucks. 

I always wonder how they keep the mussels fresh

in Chiang Mai's Warorot market. 

[worgeordie]

6 minutes ago, BE88 said:

Okay but then why was there a nauseating smell around? Had they saved on the amount of Formalin ?

 

BTW Bon appetit or not

 

Off  cuts , sh!t from the intestines of animals , meat maybe not as fresh as it should

be ,the meat was all offal ,which in the past has been more expensive than the best

cuts , strange .

regards Worgeordie

[worgeordie]

4 minutes ago, Johnnyngai said:

I do not eat any seafood when I am in Chiang Mai, 

formalin is much cheaper then refrigerated trucks. 

I always wonder how they keep the mussels fresh

in Chiang Mai's Warorot market. 

I was once in the market when a flatbed truck rolled up to unload a cargo

of chicken ,which was in bags with what looked like dirty water , it was only

covered with a sheet with some ice spread among the load, when they pulled

the sheet back the smell nearly knocked me off my feet , put me off chicken

for a while.....

 

regards worgeordie

[Keep Right]

Another reason I never, never eat street food.

[Burma Bill]

Yum, yum - formalin instead of BBQ sauce!!!

[digger70]

5 hours ago, Elkski said:

 I don't understand why they do this. 

Easy to understand .  MONEY to be made ,that's why.

[ed strong]

These are processed Tripes being cleaned in a solution of hydrogen perxoide and formalin.

 

The peroxide keeps it white but it is washed out at the end and they will NOT be in your street meat or bbg, Its worth too much to be included and the processes to get this stage are not that easy

 

This is a normal process that is done all across Europe,  (albeit not illegally) 90% of these type of stomachs products are for export to Hong Kong or directly into China. A 40' container will hold 24 - 25MT, the amount found here

 

This product would not be for street meat type products as its worth a lot more than chicken breasts for example when you work out the price per kg. Beef 'honeycomb' tripe retials at around 10 dollars per kg.

 

Unprocessed green tripes end up in pet food or perhaps some human food however its not that cheap at all and even unprocessed its still worth more than chicken wings in terms of per kg.

 

What ends up in processed meats is far worse that whats in the pictures here.

[Lacessit]

8 hours ago, carlyai said:

I'd think that a shot of formalin when you're getting older would be good for you. ????

In 2011, formalin aka formaldehyde was placed on the list of known human carcinogens. Good luck.

[Phnom Penh Trader]

8 hours ago, mikebell said:

Similarly I wouldn't eat chicken from street sellers that's been marinating in carbon monoxide for several hours by a man with no toilet facilities and guarded by a pack of wild dogs.

Try telling yourself that at 4:00am in the morning though?

[moogradod]

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I must admit that I am quite touched by these news...........for this seems to be going on for quite some time - where exactly I do not know.

 

I remember many years ago, we did often eat at the Hua Hin Night Market (where all these sea food restaurants are along the street). And then a rumour came up that our favourite restaurant had used formalin to preserve its merchandise. True or not I do not know.

 

But it did prevent us from visiting them any more - although they seemed to be tastier than the venues near the Hilton which are built into the sea.

 

Now this. Just imagine, Formalin is as well preferably used to preserve dead corpses. WIll see how we cope with that one. Starting to catch fish ourselves ? How about meat ? For chicken the issue seems to have been eaten, too ???? Any formalin detectors on Lozada ?

[Aussieroaming]

Thank goodness there weren't any corpses found.

[Isaan sailor]

Nice work, Thai Livestock Development Department and Pattaya News. But don’t think they’re the only ones.

[metisdead]

Some off topic posts, troll posts and the replies have been removed.

[jak2002003]

6 hours ago, Keep Right said:

Another reason I never, never eat street food.

And you eat where then?  What makes you think restaurants don't buy in cheap meat or meat that has been processed in conditions like this? 

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[OneMoreFarang]

I remember formalin from preparing dead animals like fish to show them as a trophy on the wall. I remember it had a strong smell.

Wouldn't people notice that smell or a bad taste with this meat?

Or how do they process that so that people eat it?

[DJ54]

14 hours ago, webfact said:

formalin

Hmmm had to look it up to be sure….., doesn’t sound safe 

[bbi1]

Is it time to turn vegetarian?

[jvs]

32 minutes ago, bbi1 said:

Is it time to turn vegetarian?

Have you ever met a nice Vegan?They all seem to be miserable

and always they have to let you know they are Vegan.

 

[Phnom Penh Trader]

1 hour ago, bbi1 said:

Is it time to turn vegetarian?

Only if you want terminal acne and flatulence?

[ed strong]

2 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I remember formalin from preparing dead animals like fish to show them as a trophy on the wall. I remember it had a strong smell.

Wouldn't people notice that smell or a bad taste with this meat?

Or how do they process that so that people eat it?

Pretty much all of our food stuffs are covered in chemicals of some sort, hence why you should always wash veg before cooking and its no different from this stuff, wash it and generally you will remove all tastes of it. In the UK we often use bleach to get them white as stomachs can be green from the staining of the grass and no one wants to eat green dim sum.

 

Dim sum in Chinese restaurants is where most of this stuff ends up, not cheap and certainly not in any street meat.

 

 

[BangkokReady]

17 hours ago, webfact said:

Somchuan added he decided to raid the plant after nearby residents had complained to him about a foul smell emanating from the facility while some were concerned that the place might spread disease to the community.

Good if true.