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China seizes 3b yuan of decades-old smuggled meat
Published Wed, Jun 24, 2015 · 09:50 PM
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.
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