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China arrests 378 for selling contaminated, smuggled meat

Xinhua, November 3, 2015 Adjust font size:

Police in the southern province of Guangdong on Tuesday announced that they had arrested 378 people implicated in the trade of contaminated and smuggled meat.

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 tons of smuggled frozen meat were seized at wholesale and retail meat 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 on Monday that they had intercepted their largest ever haul of smuggled frozen 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. Endi