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Monday, September 11, 2006
Agriculture says ‘pinikpikan’ is safe
By Rimaliza Opiña
AMID the bird flu threat, consumption of the native delicacy pinikpikan is safe, said an official of the Department of Agriculture (DA).
For as long as there are no bird flu cases recorded, DA Assistant Regional Director Jerry Baliang, who is the concurrent regional coordinator of the Bird Flu Task Force, said consumption of pinikpikan as well as other dishes, whose main ingredient is chicken or other fowls, is safe for consumption.
Pinikpikan is a Cordilleran delicacy wherein a chicken or duck is slowly beaten with a stick until it dies and blood clots inside its body. This is followed by the burning of the fowl’s feathers and skin either through an open fire or with the use of a blowtorch before it is cut to pieces and then boiled in water along with ginger root and chayote.
Sometimes, salted smoked meat is added to provide flavor.
The DA however will conduct a random visit to poultry farms in the region to monitor or extract blood samples from fowls suspected to have acquired the H5N1 virus which causes bird flu.
Apart from the deployment of personnel to all exit and entry points in the region, Baliang said the information campaign to barangay officials and health personnel has been a continuing plan of the barangay task forces, which in turn, would also conduct an information campaign to the grassroots level.
(September 11, 2006 issue)
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