SINGAPORE - It is not the usual wet market in the basement of the Chinatown Complex in Smith Street. Here, customers can buy live animals such as soft-shell turtles, bullfrogs and freshwater eels, have them slaughtered, and take them home to cook for dinner.
The agency added that action will be taken in the case of violations, and that it has not detected any infringements in its regular inspections so far. In February, China announced that it would immediately ban the trade and consumption of wild animals nationwide to battle against the outbreak - a decision that followed an initial suspension imposed in January.
Professor Paul Tambyah, president of the Asia Pacific Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infection, said that there is always a risk of infections from animals when hygiene standards are not high. He added the risk is reduced in Singapore, where the standards are"generally high". At least 20 freshwater eels were held inside a plastic box filled with water at the same stall, with barely any space for the creatures to move.
It added that the live animals in its investigations were found to have been starved from the time they were brought to the stall, till the point of slaughter. This was reportedly to prevent"bad odours" during the slaughtering process, according to stallholders themselves.
Ban these animals.
To keep the wet markets open in the current times appears unwise.
OMG just STOP torturing those poor animals. No one should be treated like that!!! Of course it's a violation. Awful.
Stupid
There was no violation in Wuhan either
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