China Destroys Infected Poultry Meat from US

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China Destroys Infected Poultry Meat from US

China has intensified inspections of poultry meat from the Unite States after finding two batches of US frozen chicken imports were contaminated by a bacteria that causes bloody diarrhea. This is the second time in a month that the Chinese agency has found the same pathogen in U.S. poultry products.

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China has now suspended meat import from a U.S. company, where comes the infected poultry meat, according to the latest notice from the State General Administration for Quality Supervision and Inspection and Quarantine.

The notice did not specify the name of the U.S. meat processor.

But Tan Zhanglong, an official with the quarantine authorities in Huizhou of South China's Guangdong Province, revealed that the 23.5 tons of infected frozen chicken legs were shipped from South Carolina.

This is the second time in a month that the Chinese agency has found the same pathogen in U.S. poultry products, said Tan.

In early December, the agency discovered a 24.4-ton batch of contaminated frozen chicken wings shipped from Atlanta, which were then burnt and buried in line with Chinese quarantine rules.

Authorities Call Foul on Infected US Chicken

Quarantine officials in South China said January 9 that they expected to destroy 24 tons of bacteria-infected chicken imported from the United States.

The detention of the poultry on Monday marked the second time in a month that authorities in Huizhou in Guangdong Province had detected E. coli O157 in US frozen chicken.

On December 11, the E. coli bug was found in 24 tons of frozen chicken shipped from Atlanta in the southern US state of Georgia with the registration code P-19378. Local authorities immediately burned and buried the tainted chicken.

The two cases belong to the same batch of US chicken products, according to Guangdong quarantine officials. Full Story

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