8 sacked after pork virus controversy
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CHINA has dismissed eight officials after pork from pigs infected with a “highly contagious virus” was found to have entered the market.
The country’s latest food scandal was revealed in an investigation by the broadcaster China Central Television which said the annual revenue of the tainted pork was more than 20 million yuan (US$3.2 million).
The meat had come from slaughterhouses in the city of Gaoan in eastern Jiangxi Province and had entered at least seven provinces in total, said the report, which was first broadcast last Saturday.
“Some of the pigs had a highly contagious virus,” added the report, which contained grisly images inside slaughterhouses of scattered pig carcasses, many with their bellies cut.
The state-run China Radio International reported yesterday that eight officials have been dismissed for negligence, over sales of pork from pigs that were sick, or had already died.
Strict health standards are required for dead pigs under Chinese food production laws.
A report by Xinhua news agency said the dismissed officials work in “animal husbandry and commerce authorities” in Gaoan.
CRI also quoted an official from Gaoan as saying that 12 suspects had been detained while an “illegal slaughtering site” had been destroyed and another sealed. The city is one of China’s major pork producers with more than two million pigs slaughtered every year, reports say. The meat is a staple in the Chinese diet.
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