China destroys beef products, bans offal imports

China has destroyed allegedly contaminated imported meat products and suspended the import of pig offal from several countries including the United States and France, state press said today.

Quarantine offices in the southern region of Shenzhen destroyed around 1,000 kilogrammes of beef from Brazil and Argentina, the China Dailyreported.

Also destroyed were 3.8 tonnes of goose wings from Israel and five tonnes of frozen pork tripe from Spain.

"The products were contaminated by foot-and-mouth disease, the poultry illness Newcastle disease and swine fever respectively," a Shenzhen quarantine official said.

AFP