Dead, sick pigs used for pork with 2 officials' OK
By Li Qian |
July 18, 2012, Wednesday
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TWO food safety officials in Yiwu City of east China's Zhejiang Province have been prosecuted for taking bribes to help vendors buy ill and dead pigs and sell the inferior pork worth more than 600,000 yuan (US$94,140).
Gong Jinlong, a director with Yiwu Food Co in charge of business operation, and his cousin Gong Yihua, a local animal quarantine official, were charged with fabricating nearly 30 certificates of origin and causing 500 unfit pigs to enter the market.
It is the first case of officials being prosecuted for dereliction of duty in food safety locally, Qianjiang Evening News reported yesterday.
The two started breaking the law from March 2011 when pig vendor Wu Cuizhong asked Gong Jinlong to get quarantine certificates for diseased pigs, prosecutors said.
Gong Jinlong took cash in bribes and lured his uncle Gong Yihua to issue fake certificates between March and August 2011.
Wu and another vendor, Yu Yachun, have been sentenced to nine years each behind bars for producing and selling inferior products from 2009 to 2011, according to the Yiwu People's Court.
In March, police in southeast China's Fujian Province raided several unlicensed butcheries and underground workshops that processed pork from sick and dead pigs and sold them in the province's capital, Fuzhou, as well as in the cities of Wenzhou and Ningbo in Zhejiang Province.
Dead pigs were sold at less than 2 yuan per kilogram. The price tripled after they were cut up. When the meat was processed into pork products, the price would jump to more than 20 yuan per kilogram.
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