Watchdog’s frozen meat alert
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China’s food safety watchdog is warning local authorities to be on the lookout for smuggled frozen meat after a large quantity, some of which had been frozen for up to five years, was seized by customs last month.
The China Food and Drug Administration also urged meat processors, storage businesses and catering companies not to buy or sell meat of unknown origin in a statement it published on its website yesterday.
Enterprises should notify the authorities if they have handled such meat since July last year, it said.
According to the statement, all the seized meat — pork, beef and chicken wings — has been destroyed and an investigation is ongoing.
Around 800 tons of frozen meat worth about 10 million yuan (US$1.61 million) was seized in central China’s Hunan Province in June and 20 people were detained.
The administration also urged media outlets to “objectively” report food safety issues after a journalist expressed doubts about the authenticity of the frozen meat news.
Experts say smuggled meat products are usually not inspected and contain large amounts of bacteria.
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