Butchers jailed for lean meat powder
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December 29, 2011, Thursday
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SIX butchers in east China's Jiangsu Province have been jailed for selling pork tainted with "lean meat powder," court authorities said yesterday.
They received terms ranging from three-and-a-half to four years over the scandal which emerged in March, the provincial higher people's court said.
The six were convicted of harming public safety by producing and selling pork tainted with clenbuterol - a carcinogenic chemical added to feed to give leaner pork.
The court said their jail terms were handed down by a local court in Nanjing on December 13 and the ruling took effect on Tuesday.
Fines ranging from 40,000 yuan (US$6,340) to 50,000 yuan were also imposed.
The butchers, who worked at a Nanjing slaughterhouse, admitted they bought live pigs from the central Henan Province, slaughtered them and sold the pork earlier this year, even though they knew the meat had been tainted by clenbuterol.
The pork scandal was reported in March, after a sample test by local authorities found 132 out of 134 live pigs at the slaughterhouse had been tainted by clenbuterol.
A court official said several other people, including government employees, are being tried over the pork scandal.
They received terms ranging from three-and-a-half to four years over the scandal which emerged in March, the provincial higher people's court said.
The six were convicted of harming public safety by producing and selling pork tainted with clenbuterol - a carcinogenic chemical added to feed to give leaner pork.
The court said their jail terms were handed down by a local court in Nanjing on December 13 and the ruling took effect on Tuesday.
Fines ranging from 40,000 yuan (US$6,340) to 50,000 yuan were also imposed.
The butchers, who worked at a Nanjing slaughterhouse, admitted they bought live pigs from the central Henan Province, slaughtered them and sold the pork earlier this year, even though they knew the meat had been tainted by clenbuterol.
The pork scandal was reported in March, after a sample test by local authorities found 132 out of 134 live pigs at the slaughterhouse had been tainted by clenbuterol.
A court official said several other people, including government employees, are being tried over the pork scandal.
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