ILOILO CITY, Philippines (PNA) – Intense commercial competition has pushed some poultry raisers to inject steroids on the chickens to accelerate its growth, said Dr. Silvino Teodosio Jr. of Iloilo Provincial Veterinarian here.
Teodosio said this was one of the reasons that chickens could already be harvested after 35 days, instead of the 45-day raring period.
He said based on their gathered reports, most commercialized chickens were usually injected with steroids on the neck or wings. Teodosio also said the injected part of the chicken’s body has highest concentration of steroids thus, if it was cooked and eaten, this would have harmful effects on human’s health in the long run.
“These steroids have terrifying effects on the body as it accelerates growth and the long-term effect of eating chicken with presence of these steroids are more harmful to human health,” he said.
Some medical studies also revealed that this performance-enhancing drug has an even more dangerous effect in the presence of female hormones, leading women to become more prone to the growth of a cyst in the womb.
It has also some effects on genetic changes.
Teodosio said they have no way to stop this malpractice of some poultry raisers because their chickens are also undergoing inspection by the Meat Inspection Services under the Department of Agriculture (DA) especially before their disposal.
“Big poultry raisers have their in-house veterinarians (who) are technically experts, know more (about) feeds and vaccines,” he said.
He added that as long as the chickens passed the quality and standard inspection, poultry raisers could already slaughter them and sell them to the market any time.
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