The market control team, the animal quarantine station and the traffic police of Thu Duc District stopped a truck, controlled by driver Nguyen Van Khanh, 24, from Hanoi for checking. They found 28 boxes containing more than 1.6 tons of rotten entrails, sinew, legs and tails of cows and buffaloes.
The driver could not produce the relevant documents so the goods were brought to the animal quarantine station of Thu Duc district.
The driver said he received the goods on February 23 in Hanoi to transport to HCM City. He was assigned to deliver the goods to someone through a mobile phone number. However, when the truck was seized, he could not contact with the recipient.
The driver was fined for over VND6 million ($300) and the rotten products were destroyed.
In related news, the Vietnam Customs has ordered local offices to strengthen the management of imported live cattle.
It said that all live cattle arriving in the country must be checked to ensure they carried the correct paperwork, including quarantine papers.
Customs offices and teams in provinces were told to make sure there were no cattle smuggled in from neighboring Laos and Cambodia and that they strictly punished illegal carriers and traders.
Customs offices were also told to join with border guards, police, cattle quarantine offices and local authorities to achieve better results..
Dang Cong Hoan, chief of Nghe An Customs‘ secretariat, said that so far no provinces and cities had reported any cattle epidemics thanks to strict checks.
In some provinces, such as Nghe An and Ha Tinh in the central region, vaccinations against cattle diseases were slowly implemented due to a shortage of veterinarians, said Hoan.
Most districts arranged only one injection a year, but regulations called for two.
Thu Ly
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