Hello everyone! Today, let me introduce a sad news.
On July 1, Japanese government officially forbid any restaurants to sell the "raw liver" and a lot of people went to Yakiniku-shop to eat it the day before.
It all started with the food poisoning-case happened at the Yakiniku restaurant "Yakiniku Shuka Ebisu" last April. Some boys eating these were dead of O-111 virus contained in them. After this harsh case, since last October, every restaurants which treated raw meat dishes had to boil meats used for such dishes in the water more than 60 degree Celsius at least 1 minute, if they are ordered. Also they had to cut and boil such meats by using cleaned equipment. However since yesterday, Health, Labour and Welfare Ministry forbade to sell raw livers because they can contain some viruses like O-157 virus which can make people die at the worst, and especially in summer such viruses can be expected to increase.
But this decision can give some restaurant bad incentives. Some analysts, in this case, some restaurants will provide a raw liver by changing its name from "Liver sasimi" to just "Liver" because consumers will want raw liver more by forbidding.. Especially the restaurant which has big connection with local consumers will not be able to ignore their wants for providing a raw liver so it can provide a raw liver as a liver for boiled, in order to keep its customer.
I agree with its decision but I think Japanse government should have decide a certain rimit for forbidding a raw liver. If it decided to forbid to provide them "FOR 3 MONTHS", consumer wouldn't likely to eat them. One reason many Japanese people disagree with this order is that the goverment has not decided to forbid it whether forever or not.
Anyway, I rearly eat raw meats in a Yakiniku restaurant so it doesn't matter for me!
Please be carefull if you eat something raw in summer.
See you!
Keiichi.
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ReplyDeleteHi, Kei. I'm sorry, I can't agree with you. Defnitely, it's sad stoty for people who love row lever like you. But the Japanese goverment have to save our life, that's the big duty, right? We don't have to repeat sad acccident like yakiniku Ebisu. So I think the acction of the government was right. And I would like them to continue that rule.
ReplyDeleteSayuri
It's very difficult for government to draw a line between the necessary limit and the too much ban. As Sayuri mentioned, government has a DUTY to protect our safety, but on the other hand, we have RIGHTS to eat whatever we want. We could say we were protected from a food poisoning disaster by our government, but we could also say we were deprived of one of our traditional food by a government’s authority.
ReplyDeleteWell, I’ve never eaten raw livers, sadly, so I don't even miss it, happily ;)