Taiwan: Shredded chicken laced with pork tests positive for ASF virus

Published 2021년 8월 29일

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Police in Kaohsiung, Taiwan have confiscated packets of shredded chicken and beef jerky from a Vietnamese migrant worker's dorm room, which have tested positive for the African swine fever (ASF) virus. The city's Agriculture Bureau has confirmed that the meat contained pork. This follows a similar seizure in New Taipei, where 71 kilograms of banned meat products from Vietnam were found to contain the ASF virus. Two Vietnamese women suspected of smuggling the meat have been detained.

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Taipei, Aug. 29 (CNA) Packets of shredded chicken confiscated by Kaohsiung police last week have been found to contain pork and have tested positive for the African swine fever (ASF) virus, the city's Agriculture Bureau said Sunday. Kaohsiung police seized 40 packets of shredded chicken and 20 packets of beef jerky weighing a combined 17 kilograms in the dorm room of a Vietnamese migrant worker on Aug. 23, and the shredded chicken has tested positive for the ASF virus. ASF is a highly contagious, incurable disease that infects pigs, and there is no vaccine against it. The disease cannot be transmitted from pigs to humans and is not a threat to human health. Taiwan has been on high alert against ASF after 71 kilograms of banned imported meat products from Vietnam were seized in New Taipei last week and were later found to contain the ASF virus. An officer from Gangshan Precinct in Kaohsiung said Sunday that the police suspect the ...

Source: Focustaiwan