The anti-environmental crime police in Dong Nai have caught an unlicensed meat processor soaking 300 kg of buffalo and cow organs in a chemical solution to bleach them before selling them to eateries.
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Following a tip-off from the public, a police team raided a meat processing establishment, at Long Binh ward, Bien Hoa city, early yesterday morning and found five workers processing about 700 kg of organs of buffalo and cow, of which 300 kg had been soaked with a bleaching chemical in a tank.
The establishment’s owner, Tran Hoang Vu, failed to show the police a business license and documents to identify what the chemical was, the team said.
Vu said he usually bought animal organs from some slaughters in the ward and then bleached them to make them fresh before selling them to eateries in Bien Hoa and neighboring Binh Duong province.
The team made a report on their finding, gave an administrative fine to Vu, and seized all the bleached organs and two 20-liter cans of chemical.
The team said it would destroy the contaminated food and continue investigating the case after testing the chemical to identify what it is.
Similar cases have been found recently by market management forces in some provinces, in which dishonest meat processors, using a few kinds of detergents and flavors, turned rotten pork into fresh one or even changed it into high-priced venison easily and quickly.
After washing or soaking the poor quality pork with a special detergent, the processors would marinate it with a certain flavoring to transform it into meat from cows, deer, weasel or so on.
(Source: TTNews)
