Discovered a facility that injected impurities into dead shrimp and then smuggled them into wedding parties

Ms. Nga's seafood processing facility specializes in collecting dead and discarded shrimp, then injecting impurities into them and selling them to suppliers in many restaurants and wedding centers in Hanoi.

The leader of Department 5, Department of Environmental Crime Prevention and Control (C49) of the Ministry of Public Security said that the C49 force has just coordinated with the Inspectorate of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Department of Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Product Quality Management to crack down on a dirty food business in Hanoi.

The incident was discovered on the evening of May 26. Initially, the owner of the facility, Le Thi Nga, said that this facility specializes in collecting dead shrimp and discarded shrimp from seafood businesses and then injecting impurities into them to sell to suppliers in many restaurants and wedding centers in Hanoi.

The Environmental Crime Prevention Police force coordinated with authorities to inspect the number of dead shrimp injected with impurities.

According to Department 5 of Department C49, on the night of May 26, forces suddenly inspected a processing facility located in the resettlement area X2 Yen So, Hoang Mai district, and discovered many boxes of frozen shrimp being taken away for consumption by the facility owner. From the outside, the shrimps showed signs of curved tails, dilated segments, and swollen bellies, showing signs of being injected with impurities.

The authorities did a quick test and after putting the foreign substance in the shrimp into the reagent, the reagent changed color. The quick test results showed that this foreign substance was agar powder, an impurity that increases weight, making the soft, rotten, dead shrimp become firmer and more beautiful.

If the entire 80kg of shrimp injected with impurities is successfully sold, the owner can illegally profit more than 3 million VND.

If the entire 80kg of shrimp injected with impurities were successfully sold, the owner could have illegally profited more than 3 million VND. Sampling for testing, collecting information and counting the shrimp injected with impurities was not completed until nearly 1:00 a.m. on May 27.

According to the authorities, although it has been in operation for nearly half a year, at the time of inspection, this facility still did not have any documents to ensure food hygiene and safety. Meanwhile, each month, this facility supplies the market with tons of shrimp injected with impurities for sale to consumers.

According to Department C49, the authorities are currently waiting for the results of the examination to see if the shrimp injected with impurities is contaminated with bacteria that cause digestive diseases for consumers or not to handle those involved in the incident. The C49 force will also expand the investigation into the incident to see where the shrimp was purchased from and where it was consumed.

According to CAND