BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

30/08/2007

Russia detains 571 kg of meat on border with Belarus

MOSCOW, August 30 (Itar-Tass) - Russia has thwarted an attempt to bring 571 kilograms of poor-quality meat products from Belarus. A truck carrying 171 kilograms of bacon and 400 kilograms of pork and veal presumably of Polish origin was stopped at the Smolensk customs checkpoint on the Russia-Belarus border.

The food products were transported in unequipped Mercedes vehicles without any veterinary certificates and permission from the Russian agricultural authorities to export meat products into Russia.

Bacon has been sent to a temporary warehouse while meat, which falls below organoleptic requirements should be destroyed.

Source:

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=11826738&PageNum=0