Destroy 3,750 pigs injected with sedatives, stop 'huge' slaughterhouse

3,750 pigs injected with tranquilizers will be destroyed. Xuyen A slaughterhouse will also be fined and temporarily suspended.

Vice Chairman of People's CommitteeHo Chi Minh CityTran Vinh Tuyen requested the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to coordinate with the inspection team to urgently destroy all pigs identified as having been injected with tranquilizers, not to keep them in captivity waiting for the drugs to be eliminated before slaughtering them.

The reason is that these 3,750 pigs do not meet food safety standards, have a risk of drug residue, and are at risk of foot-and-mouth disease during storage.

Publicize the list of 13 traders (kiln owners) who violated the law and take measures to strictly control pork products from the above traders when entering Ho Chi Minh City in the coming time.

Number of pigs injected with tranquilizers before slaughter.

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development advises on the form of punishment and temporary suspension of the Xuyen A slaughterhouse to rectify it according to the orientation of modern centralized slaughterhouses.Ho Chi Minh City.

Mr. Tuyen also assigned the Department of Justice to study, propose and recommend additional regulations on strict administrative penalties for the above acts.

The Department of Industry and Trade has measures to stabilize the market, prevent shortages, and increase pork prices during the time the Xuyen A slaughterhouse temporarily stops operating.

Regarding the incident, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Animal Health requested 17 employees working at the Xuyen A slaughterhouse to make an explanation to have a basis for handling responsibility.

At 10:30 p.m. on September 28, Department 7 of the Environmental Crime Prevention Police Department (C49B, Ministry of Public Security) coordinated with the Inspectorate of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to inspect the Xuyen A livestock slaughterhouse (in Cu Chi district), catching two men red-handed injecting sedatives into pigs.

Police discovered dozens of 50 ml bottles of combistress and 500 ml bottles of lactated ringers laced with sedatives.

Previously, the owner of the slaughterhouse had brought 5,231 pigs here for slaughter. At the time of the police arrest, the staff had injected drugs into 4,626 pigs.

According to the investigation agency, before slaughtering, at least 10 slaughterhouse owners injected the pigs with the above mentioned drug. After that, this amount of pork was supplied to some wholesale markets in Ho Chi Minh City, distributed to the markets.

Xuyen A is the largest slaughterhouse in Ho Chi Minh City, slaughtering about 5,000 pigs every night. This unit accounts for more than 50% of the total number of pigs slaughtered in the city.

According to VNN