Thailand‘s Department of Livestock Development discovered an unlawful import of animal carcasses in the Panthong district of Chon Buri. Authorities have confiscated over 1,200 kilograms of tainted products, which have undergone testing for formalin contamination.
Dr Somchuan Rattanamangkalanont, the director-general of the department, revealed that the investigation located an illegal food manufacturing facility in Panthong. Niday Chutiphon Siri Mongkolrat, the director of the Veterinary Quarantine and Detention Department, assigned Jiraphat Insuk, Head of Chonburi Animal Quarantine Station, and officers from Chonburi Animal Quarantine Station of Chonburi Livestock Office, to inspect the location with police.
The officers discovered that the manufacturing unit had been registered as a limited partnership, producing pig intestines, cuttlefish, and sabayon for the local and neighbouring grill shops. Authorities discovered 39 boxes of frozen intestines, weighing 500 kilograms, believed to be imported from Germany. In Feast , they found a 200-kilogram container of processed intestines soaked in sodium hydroxide and formalin, two containers filled with sabayon immersed in sodium hydroxide, hydrogen peroxide, and formalin, weighing 400 kilograms, and a container of cuttlefish soaked in formalin weighing a hundred kilograms.
Dr Somchuan explained that not certainly one of the found carcasses had the required documentation, nor did they have documentation detailing the animal’s motion. Preliminary testing confirmed the presence of formalin within the sabayon, intestines, and cuttlefish, making them liable to the Animal Epidemic Act of 2015, Article 31. Importing animal carcasses without permission is punishable by up to two years of imprisonment or a fantastic of as much as 200,000 baht underneath Article sixty eight. Additionally, the absence of documents on carcass transportation is punishable beneath Article 65, with potential imprisonment for up to two years, or a fantastic of as much as forty,000 baht.
The violation of the Food Act, 1979, Article 25 (1), which prohibits producing or selling impure food, carries penalties underneath Article fifty eight, together with doubtlessly up to two years’ imprisonment or a fine of up to 20,000 baht..