VietNamNet Bridge – The trafficking of decomposed cattle meat or organs has been on the rise in many localities, with the latest case occurring in Thanh Hoa Province on Monday.

At 8 am on May 14, the central province’s Market Management Team No. 4 stopped a suspicious van for examination and caught it carrying many cartons contains cow and buffalo legs and suckling pigs – all stinking and rotten.

The total weight of these items was about 630 kg.

The goods’ owner, Bui Xuan Son, of central Thai Binh Province’s Kien Xuong District, failed to show the market controllers any documents of the origin of the food, said Le Kien Cuong, acting head of the team.

Son had no certificates of animal quarantine for the goods either, Cuong said.

Son told the team he wanted to transport the food to Ho Chi Minh City for sale.

The team made a report about the finding and seized all the items for investigation before having them destructed.
Continuous detection

Many similar cases have been found in that past several months.

A week ago, Ho Chi Minh City’s Thu Duc District Animal Quarantine Station and a traffic police force on May 9 stopped a suspicious frozen truck for examination and discovered that it was carrying 10 tons of chicken legs and 3 tons of pig breasts – all rotten, stained and stinking.

On April 24, a joint inspection team in HCMC seized 215 decomposed suckling pigs and a large amount of rotten pigskin loaded onto two buses for delivery.

Five days before, a joint inspection team in Binh Duong Province detected 8.4 tons of rotten cattle meat and organs which would have been sold to restaurants in Ho Chi Minh City after being processed.

The discovery was made at Trien Khanh Private Enterprise, a cattle meat processor, in Binh Hoa Ward, Thuan An Town, Binh Duong Province.

On April 18, market management officers and a veterinary unit in Dong Nai province seized a frozen storage truck carrying 2.2 tons of rotten cow and buffalo meat packed in 33 bags.

On March 4, Ho Chi Minh City’s Thu Duc Animal Quarantine Station and local traffic police detected nearly 3 tons of chicken, most of them were rotten, were carried by a van.

Cuong said he had been hired by Nguyen Thi Kim Anh, a trader in Dong Nai Province, to transport the chickens to Dong Thap Province.

As shown on several sheets of papers stuck on the cartons of goods, the delivery locations were a number of primary schools in Dong Thap’s Cao Lanh Town.

VietNamNet/Tuoi Tre