PANAJI: Like the rest of Goa, former head of division of microbiology, Goa University (GU), Joe D’Souza awoke to the news of formalin in fish. “The very fact that formalin was once found thru a spot test, is a major subject. Why should a carcinogenic agent have limits? Why should it be provide at all? It’s now not naturally occurring within the setting,” he told TOI on Thursday.
D’Souza mentioned knowledgeable committee should be constituted to cross-check the quantitative research report of the test carried out by the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA). “Formalin decomposes and by the time the fish was once taken to the laboratory at Bambolim it could have decomposed to carbon dioxide and water. If it was once transported at room temperature, decomposition would surely take place,” he mentioned.
Pointing out that formalin is used to maintain our bodies so that bacterial motion does now not take place, D’Souza mentioned that “when utilized in low concentration the smell is not robust”.
Explaining the risks of the chemical to the human frame, D’Souza mentioned, “Formalin is improperly used to stay fish contemporary, but it is very harmful as it enters the digestive tract of the human frame and affects the body structure. It may cause nephritis-inflammation of the kidneys.”
He mentioned when fish with formalin is transported from different states, residue will not be provide on its floor by the time it reaches Goa. But “this doesn't imply the chemical hasn’t entered the muscle tissues and tissues of the fish”.
He wired the need for testing on the loading point. Repeated use of formalin even in small quantities in addition to its gathered residual results are bad, the previous head of GU’s microbiology division mentioned.
D’Souza mentioned knowledgeable committee should be constituted to cross-check the quantitative research report of the test carried out by the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA). “Formalin decomposes and by the time the fish was once taken to the laboratory at Bambolim it could have decomposed to carbon dioxide and water. If it was once transported at room temperature, decomposition would surely take place,” he mentioned.
Pointing out that formalin is used to maintain our bodies so that bacterial motion does now not take place, D’Souza mentioned that “when utilized in low concentration the smell is not robust”.
Explaining the risks of the chemical to the human frame, D’Souza mentioned, “Formalin is improperly used to stay fish contemporary, but it is very harmful as it enters the digestive tract of the human frame and affects the body structure. It may cause nephritis-inflammation of the kidneys.”
He mentioned when fish with formalin is transported from different states, residue will not be provide on its floor by the time it reaches Goa. But “this doesn't imply the chemical hasn’t entered the muscle tissues and tissues of the fish”.
He wired the need for testing on the loading point. Repeated use of formalin even in small quantities in addition to its gathered residual results are bad, the previous head of GU’s microbiology division mentioned.
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