The government will “eventually” replace Macau’s live chickens with chilled ones, which would be slaughtered before delivery in Macau for local consumption, Albino de Campos Pereira, who heads the Inspection and Health Department of the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM), said yesterday.
However, Campos Pereira was quick to add that the government had yet to decide when to implement the ban, stressing that the sale of live chickens would continue for the time being.
The bureau held a press conference on the findings of a survey on the matter, which was conducted in November and December last year, at the Government Integrated Service Building in Areia Preta.
Albino de Campos Pereira (second from right), who heads the Inspection and Health Department of the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM), speaks during yesterday’s press conference at the Government Integrated Service Building in Areia Preta while Sunny Chan Cheuk Wah (second from left), an associate professor at the public Macau Polytechnic Institute (IPM), Health Bureau (SSM) official Leong Iek Hou (right) and Choi U Fai, who heads the IACM Veterinary Inspection and Control Division, look on. Photo: Davis Ip
A poultry vendor prepares a freshly slaughtered chicken for a customer at the Red Market, one of the city’s most popular wet markets, yesterday. photo: MPDG
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