Chile: A routine control in Quillagua seized 16,000 units of chicken eggs

A total of 16 thousand 740 units of chicken eggs of high zoosanitary risk, were seized by police personnel from Quillagua control and delivered to the Agricultural and Livestock Service (SAG) of Tarapacá for denaturation and subsequent final disposal. Sue Vera, Regional Director (S) of the SAG reported that, in a routine control carried out by Carabineros on routes not authorized in the vicinity of the Quillagua customs control, a van was caught carrying a total of 558 trays of eggs from hen of Bolivian origin, which had been clandestinely brought into the country for the purpose of being marketed in the Antofagasta region. "Immediately, police personnel from the Quillagua possession proceeded to confiscate the 16,740 units of chicken eggs, notifying the prosecutor on duty of the facts, who ordered that the products be delivered to SAG Tarapacá for destruction," he said. Vera, who indicated that it is the largest seizure of chicken eggs so far in 2022. Meanwhile, the Seremi of ...