378 held in China forselling contaminated, smuggled meat

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Press Trust of India Beijing
Last Updated : Nov 03 2015 | 8:42 PM IST
Over 350 people have been arrested in China for allegedly selling contaminated and smuggled meat in the country's southern Guangdong province.
According to the provincial public security department, more than 60 tonnes of pork from dead and diseased pigs, over 250 tonnes of unhealthy meat, and 425 tonnes of smuggled frozen meat were seized at wholesale and retail markets, supermarkets and restaurants across the province during a crackdown between April and September this year, it said.
Police on the southern island province of Hainan announced yesterday that they had intercepted their largest ever haul of smuggled frozen meat.
Police has arrested 378 people for selling contaminated and smuggled meat.
The haul, which included 660 tonnes of beef, ox tripe, chicken and chicken feet from Brazil, Argentina, Poland and Australia, filled 18 shipping containers, the border police of Danzhou City said.
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First Published: Nov 03 2015 | 8:42 PM IST

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