China seizes 3b yuan of decades-old smuggled meat

Beijing

ALMOST half a billion dollars worth of smuggled frozen meat - some of it rotting and more than 40 years old - has been seized in China, reports said on Wednesday.

More than 100,000 tonnes of chicken wings, beef and pork worth up to three billion yuan (S$650 million) were seized in the nationwide crackdown, the state-run China Daily newspaper said.