Global raid nets fake food, drinks
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A GLOBAL police crackdown has seized over 10,000 tons of illicit or dangerous food and drink including monkey meat, dead insects and fake sugar spiked with fertilizer, the European police agency said yesterday.
In Italy, officers seized 85 tons of olives “painted with copper sulphate to enhance their color,” while British police recovered nearly 10,000 liters of fake or adulterated alcohol, including wine, whisky and vodka.
The raids were carried out as part of Operation Opson V, which involved law enforcement from 57 countries as well as global policing agency Interpol and its EU counterpart, Europol said in a statement.
The crackdown from November to February — hailed as the largest-ever seizure — also uncovered one million liters of fake drink, enough to fill more than 12,000 bathtubs. “Police, customs, national food regulatory bodies and partners from the private sector carried out checks at shops, markets, airports, seaports and industrial estates,” Europol said.
At Brussels’ Zaventem airport, scene of last week’s bomb attacks, customs officials found several kilograms of monkey meat, while in France officers seized and destroyed 11kg of locusts and 20kg of caterpillars.
Nearly nine tons of counterfeit sugar contaminated with fertilizer was found in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, and in Burundi officers seized more than 36,000 liters of illicit alcohol as well as nine AK-47 assault rifles and three grenades.
In Greece, three factories producing illegal alcohol were closed down and more than 7,400 bottles of fake alcohol and labels were netted.
Thai police destroyed 30 tons of illegal beef and buffalo meat, unfit for human consumption, while in Australia testing on 450kg of honey found it had been blended or adulterated.
In Indonesia, officials found 70kg of chicken intestines preserved in formalin, prohibited as a food additive.
Bolivia found a warehouse containing thousands of cans of sardines with fake labels of a famous Peruvian brand.
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