• April 16, 2024

Food is basic to maintain a healthy body, however, there are edible products that contain chemicals, which can affect the health of human beings, as is the case of meat with ractopamine.

Although Mexico's health authorities claim that Mexican meat is safe, Russia limited its importation because it believes that producers use ractopamine to fatten livestock and generate lean meat.

However, the Secretary of Agriculture, Enrique Martínez y Martínez notes that Mexican farmers do not use this substance to fatten animals.

How does meat with ractopamine affect health?

According to the AChilean sociación de Carnes , the ractopamine It is a substance that stimulates the growth of animals and reduces the cost of production, by rapidly increasing weight and lean meat, mainly in pigs.

The use of this substance is allowed in countries such as the United States and Brazil, because a Codex Alimentarius investigation detailed that its use does not impact the health of consumers.

Even, the U.S. Meat Export Federation clarifies that no toxic effects have been demonstrated by the use of ractopamine, because the transformation and biological clearance of this substance occurs rapidly in the body of animals.

However, the portal Romer Lab s clarifies that the misuse of this substance in the fattening of animals can generate cramps, muscle tremors, aggression, hypertension, weakness, nausea, agitation, tachycardia, arrhythmia and hyperglycemia.
 

Video Medicine: Why Do Beef and Pork Farmers Use Ractopamine? (April 2024).