KUALA LUMPUR: The Veterinary Services Department (DVS) has seized pig carcasses, some imported from Brazil and Russia and some unlabelled, weighing over 190 tonnes and worth RM4.3mil in total.
BUKIT MERTAJAM: The Penang Veterinary Services Department seized 431kg of pig carcasses worth RM63,500 which were slaughtered outside of licensed abattoirs.
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lot of our debt but they re not number one. japan is number one because the japanese are more politically orientated toward the u.s. and the china is trying to get direct buy of debt. there are areas in which foreign direct investment from china would be inappropriate but all of the more reason to embrace the ones where we don t have problems. auto parts for instance. i m concerned about the political direction from beijing on this one and also acquisition of amc theaters. in both cases you had a chinese company number one in its market, supposedly the fastest growing market in the world, pigs on one hand and theaters on the other but they invested the united states in declining markets for pork and theaters. there s a political direction we have to sort through. i m not concerned really that much about pork but on the other hand i m concerned about the general issue of political direction. there are these images of the pig carcasses and this notion
that maybe the food standard safeties which we are meant to as a country we re supposed to be making sure that no matter who owns the company that they are addressed but we don t do a good job of it. there s an angst that if there s an outside entity that doesn t have the same national interest that we have a food safety concern. we do have a real food safety concern because in march and april the authorities pulled out nearly 20,000 pig carcasses from the river that runs through the middle of shanghai and some of that meat ended up on chinese supermarket shelves. there is an issue. we do not inspect enough. we inspect maybe 1% of the chinese stuff that comes across. the chinese it s not a question of technology. they have food safety scandals one after another because of corruption in the political system which means you cannot inspect in china. there s a lot more. necessary partnership with china will go beyond the economy and there s fundamental questions of our international