Brazilian meat is sold in Skopje. Photo: Anila Disha.
Illegal Brazilien meat in Macedonia
Brazilian meat continues to be sold illegally in Macedonia - under highly unhygienic conditions on the market counters.
By Anila Disha
Posted on December 12th
Though the meat is controlled there are cases of Brazil meat arriving in Macedonia which has escaped control. This meat enters Macedonia through border checkpoints in front of the border control eyes and there are cases when trade of this meat happens over the mountains, loaded over the horses’ backs.
Afterwards this type of meat ends up in the kitchen in the different restaurants as well as in the green market where there is no single hygienic sanitary condition to fullfill.
On the market the meat sold cheaper than at the regular meat stores (two thirds from the regular price).
The current economical and social conditions pushed the citizens to buy that meat even though they fear the the consequences of eating it. The sales persons at the counters say that they do not earn anything more from it than a ‘mouthful bread’ for their children.
The biggest part of the money goes to the meat owners that are keeping the meat in the storehouses situated in the periphery of Skopje. The experts explain that if meat is exposed to inappropriate conditions even only for three hours 5 million bacteria develop which - when occurring in such huge number - are a risk for human health. If you pass through the counters in Old Bazaar in Skopje you can see a line of counters filled with meat products, most of them come from Brazil.
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