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Tainted Argentine beef offals found in Vladivostok, Russia

Xinhua, April 4, 2016 Adjust font size:

More than 15 tons of frozen beef offals carrying dangerous bacteria were found here by Russia's food safety agency, reports said on Monday.

"Analysis of the product samples revealed the presence of bacterium Listeria in meat," the Interfax news agency reported quoting the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance in Russia's Primorsky region, located in the south of the Russian Far East.

The food agency said that the frozen beef produced by the Argentine company Frigorifico H.V.S.A. was addressed to an entrepreneur from Yakutsk, the capital city of Russia's Sakha Republic in the north.

"The shipment arrived in Russia with a veterinary certificate N00826402," the agency said, adding that the tainted meat has been confiscated so that it won't be spread further. Endi