More than 2 million tons of smuggled meat were so "black" into China...

Recently, there have been local confirmed cases and imported cold chain food packaging new coronavirus nucleic acid test positive, the situation of epidemic prevention and control is still complex.
, it is not just these cold-chain foods imported through the formal channel that are of concern.
in recent years, smuggling of frozen meat has been banned and rampant, and these untested frozen meat may carry a large number of animal infectious disease pathogens, pathogenic bacteria, parasites, and even a variety of major infectious diseases.
prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, smuggling frozen meat is buried a great risk of the epidemic.
the smuggling of frozen meat, why has it been banned for a long time?1. In 2013, China produced 6.4 million tons of beef and legally imported 297,000 tons of beef.
, however, the actual beef market volume is close to 9 million tons.
the difference of more than 2 million tons, enough to fill 80,000 containers and 16 heavy ocean-going vessels.
's this meat from? There are two main countries: Brazil for pasture and India for fasting beef.
the two countries are huge and inexpensive, becoming a choice for smugglers.
smuggled expired frozen goods seized by the Guangxi Customs Anti-Smuggling Police.
, Xinhua had estimated that "50 per cent of India's beef is smuggled into China".
- Vietnam Haipong - Vietnam Man Street - Dongxing, China - Nanning, China, this smuggling route was once very "fire".
arrived in Vietnam, where the two sides discussed the quantity and price of frozen beef smuggled meat, and indian sellers received 30 per cent of the purchase price as an advance payment, and then shipped containers containing smuggled goods from Mumbai to Haipong City, Vietnam.
the container lands, the buyer pays the final amount.
note that smugglers from India to Haipong City, Vietnam, regular customs clearance, compliance with normal import and export trade procedures.
is India's largest beef export market, according to official Indian data.
, however, there is no Indian beef in Vietnam's official import data.
from "white" to "black", Man Street transit to the Vietnamese border is distributed a large number of trade centers, Man Street is a busier one.
here the police force is relatively weak, the opposite bank of the Beilun River is China's Guangxi Dongxing - Man Street, Dongxing city between a water gap, the narrowest part of the water is only 10 meters.
28 kilometers long along the Beilun River border, of which 18 kilometers are suitable for navigation and "cargo".
10, 2015, Guangxi Nanning Customs destroyed smuggled frozen goods in Dongxing City.
, Xinhua News Agency," makes it a place for "cargo keepers", and when smuggling is rampant, flat-bottomed iron-hulled ships come and go, and porters work day and night.
: The shipper is responsible for sending the goods from Vietnam to Dongxing and arriving at the designated locations of "importers" such as anti-city port and Nanning.
" chicken claws 8700 yuan per ton, cattle belly 17,500 yuan per ton, Brazil spot, today has been to a cabinet.
want to buy a down payment of 50,000, specifically to Dongxing face-to-face.
" in the country some frozen goods procurement network, smugglers brazenly put their contact information written in the message board.
are so heavy that smugglers often have to get around the heavy security after distributing them from the Beilun River.
in border villages close to smuggling-rich areas, some border residents have even set up private roadblocks to charge passing suspected smuggling vehicles.
smugglers pay "buy road money" to take the "stick road" - the road arranged by the villagers.
the smuggled beef from the "stick road" to high-speed travel.
from Dongxing as soon as three or four hours to Nanning's cold storage, and then by cold truck to the consumer.
Throughout the smuggling and transportation process, frozen beef lacks strict cold-chain facilities, freezing, thawing, refreezing, and then being put on the table of unsuspecting consumers for reasons such as low cost... 2, money can make "ghost push meat" repeatedly banned, the most important reason is the smuggling of frozen meat windfall.
20 years, the demand for high-quality meat such as beef has increased rapidly.
2005-2018, domestic beef consumption grew by 40.9%, from 5.614 million tons to 7.91 million tons.
2018, africa's swine fever outbreak, as an alternative to beef demand further increased, in 2019 the country's total consumption of beef 8.33 million tons, an increase of 11.23 percent year-on-year.
, in recent years, China's beef production has not increased at the same time.
In 2000, there were 123 million cattle in China, and in 2009 the number of cattle in storage halved, falling below 60 million, and then the number remained basically between 60 million and 75 million.
the reason, compared to other meat, beef cattle breeding cycle is longer, a beef cattle from breeding to edible cycle of up to 3 years, many farmers do not want to easily enter.
, China's beef production can not meet the growing demand for consumption, leaving a lot of room for imports.
, livestock and poultry meat products from countries in Europe, North America and South America are much lower in cost than in China because of their raw origin and breeding efficiency.
For example, a Brazilian abattoir, which is less than half the size of a normal slaughterhouse in China, slaughters two to three times as many cattle a day as the country's largest abattoir, with high efficiency, low cost and low price.
said domestic pork prices were 1.79 times higher than in the US and 1.48 times higher in Europe during the same period.
normal imports, cargo ships will unload containers to the port waiting for quarantine, the preservation of frozen meat electricity can not stop for a moment, but also need to go through security and quarantine procedures, pay taxes and other.
and smuggling do not have these procedures and do not have to pay fees to further reduce costs.
cost of smuggling beef from India and South America is almost 30 per cent of normal customs clearance.
the lure of huge profits, someone takes a risk.
3, crime "flower live" endlessly is not only beef, smuggled frozen meat in China's meat consumption market has always occupied a "place."
millions of tons of smuggled frozen meat come to China by land, sea and land every year.
to cure the persistent diseases accumulated over the years, the need for "strong medicine."
2016, the General Administration of Customs for three consecutive years to promote the "National Gate Sword" joint special action.
the first five months of 2018, the Customs opened 104 cases of frozen goods smuggling, and a total of 23,000 tons of frozen goods were detected.
2020, the Whampoa Customs anti-smuggling bureau, in cooperation with the Dongguan Municipal Public Security Bureau, launched a special operation to crack down on a large smuggling ring and confirmed that more than 10,000 tons of frozen goods were suspected of being smuggled, with a case value of about 1 billion yuan.
police in Nansha District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, said that so far this year, a total of more than 1,900 tons of all kinds of smuggled frozen meat, involved in the amount of 62.7 million yuan, the successful arrest of 152 smuggling suspects.
the fight against terrorism and the way smuggling is being updated.
smugglers use scrap small ships and fishing boats to modify oil tank cargo hold, and then use false license plates, covered with canvas, and put the frozen goods on the label of normal meat, disguised as ordinary goods; Smuggling frozen goods into the country by means of vehicle storage, and then sub-packing, employing local people through cars, boats and even human transport and other "ant moving" means, bypassing customs clearance and border control personnel, smuggling into the country.
this mode of smuggling is one of the typical modus operandi of frozen goods smuggling cases seized by the Customs in recent years, which is small, repeated and flexible, even if the losses detected are not significant.
it is to fight "ant move"? In order to prevent smugglers from committing crimes, China has built a 4.5-meter high-standard defense fence on the front line of the Lunhe River in Hebei Province, but there are still many people who climb the fence through ladders, use wide cloth strips to send smuggled goods down, and so on the side of the motorcycle driver picks up the goods and goes along the field path, the whole process is complete.
There have been media in-depth interviews to see a video: late at night, less than 20 meters from the police car boundary, more than 10 smugglers climbed the defense bar to barge the goods, the police opened the door, the crowd immediately dispersed, re-selected points to move goods, the police withdrew, and a new gang came back.
not only is it difficult to contain, but even if those involved are arrested, the investigation will be difficult.
According to the current seizure of the case of the person involved in the confession, smuggling routes by the behind-the-scenes "boss" control command, the crime gang in addition to the core personnel, mostly for the network to hire, some will also be smugglers to implement "pre-job training", teaching response skills, in an attempt to undermine the complete chain of evidence.
a group of smuggling gangs from the contract business, to transport, customs clearance, delivery of goods to form a "one-stop service", and in the middle of the charge, the use of cash or network payments, transaction records secret, difficult to investigate.
point of view of punishment, a "little ant" was caught, the illegal circumstances are not very heavy, tax evasion amounted to less than 50,000 yuan, can only carry out administrative punishment.
administrative punishment often results in such a situation, smugglers and customs officers said:
You quickly fined me, pay the money after I hurriedly come back", over time formed a strange circle.
4, full of injuries, how to do? In 2015, "smuggling zombie meat on the table, the maximum meat age of more than 40 years" video continued to ferment online, although it was later proved that the age of meat exaggerated, but the harm of frozen meat can not be ignored.
July 8, 2015, firefighters and crews concentrated on destroying more than 670 tons of smuggled "zombie meat" in the Yunnan estuary on the China-Vietnam border.
, Xinhua News Agency first, frozen meat food hygiene quality is worrying.
because of the smuggling of meat can not trace the source, in recent years, "70 after pig's hoof" "80 after chicken wings" news really can be seen in fear.
China has strict restrictions on the preservation period of frozen meat, for example, frozen divided beef can be stored in a cold storage room with a temperature below -18 degrees C, but the storage period should not exceed 12 months; For aquatic meat, the national standard restrictions stipulate that frozen aquatic products should be packed and stored in a cold storage system from -18 degrees C to -15 degrees C, and the storage period shall not exceed 9 months.
In addition to the risk of eating "zombie meat", transport conditions are poor, meat is difficult to transport under constant freezing conditions, may go through the process of thawing and refreezing, and some have even begun to rot and be refrozen.
this process is prone to breeding a variety of bacteria, such as the Liszt genus and other microorganisms.
even if frozen again, some bacteria still have complete cell membranes and are not much affected by toxicity.
the unknown origin of frozen meat, by seasoning into a table "food", consumers are difficult to distinguish.
, the origin of unknown frozen meat, easy to clip infectious viruses, is not conducive to epidemic prevention and control.
end of April, the health department at Tyson Foods, the largest meat processor in the United States, confirmed 182 cases related to processing plants.
May 8, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report showing that 4,913 new crown cases have been confirmed at 115 meat processing plants in 19 U.S. states, 20 of which have died.
not just the United States, but there have been reports of outbreaks at meat processing plants in Canada, Spain, Ireland, Brazil and Australia.
under the global trading system, more than 10 provinces in China have tested positive for the new coronavirus in cold-chain frozen products since June this year.
contaminated items, including food and packaging, are transported through cold chains to bring the virus to non-epidemic areas, causing exposure and transmission.
normal import process supervision is strict, can block the spread of the epidemic chain.
of frozen meat that enters the table through smuggling is certainly much higher than food from formal sources.
, the impact on formal meat enterprises, forming a "bad currency expulsion of good money" vicious circle.
"floating goods" low-cost, low-priced so that the formal import of products sales dismal.
The head of a formal meat enterprise calculated an account: at the price of pigshoes, for example, the cost of formal imports at that time was about 23,000 yuan per ton, while the cost of smuggling goods was only about 16,000 yuan per ton, the price was about 20,000 yuan per ton, far below the cost of regular imports of pig's hoofs.
only sell meat imported through formal channels, it is likely to lose money or even close down, for this reason, some formal enterprises have to sell "floating goods" at the same time.
: Smuggling frozen meat, the codging is called "water drift", that is, frozen meat products that drift over the sea without quarantine by the relevant departments.
: The seizure of smuggled frozen meat has alarmed the food safety regulatory system.
, we are confident that we can weave a food safety supervision network, ensure the normal operation of formal meat enterprises, and guard the public's "safety on the tip of the tongue."
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