Poor quality meat pouring into HCMC Tuoitrenews Two of the rotten and stinking pigs seized recently in Ho Chi Minh City. Tuoitre Among other poor-quality pork and poultry seized recently in Ho Chi Minh City, the rotten and stinking pigs taken on May 9 have tested positive for blue ear disease and diarrhea, health authorities reported. The pigs, carried in a bus, were seized by animal quarantine officers and traffic police from the Thu Duc Animal Quarantine Station in HCMC on May 9. This is just one in a series of cases in which poor quality pigs, pork, animal organs, and poultry have been transported, mostly without documents, from other localities to the city over the past several months, the city Veterinary Department said. On Sunday, May 19, the Binh Thanh Veterinary Station caught a tricycle carrying 190 kg of pig breast without documents. As most of the goods were rotten and stinking, the station confiscated them for incineration.   On May 6, the Thu Duc Animal Quarantine Station in HCMC caught a refrigeration truck carrying 6,800 kg of piglets stamped with the slaughtering control seal of the Thai Binh Province Veterinary Sub-department. However, after examination and testing, the station surprisingly discovered that the samples of the pigs were infected with viruses that caused blue ear disease. It was very strange that the diseased food was able to pass through numerous checkpoints to reach HCMC, the station said. On April 19, the Thu Duc Animal Quarantine Station caught a bus carrying 84 pigs and 14 dogs weighing 1,040 kg in total without any documents. All of the animals were rotten, and 17 of the pigs were decomposing. The bus driver said he had got through every checkpoint from Binh Dinh Province before arriving in HCMC. All of the goods were incinerated later.   On April 11, police in Hanoi’s Ha Dong District caught a taxi from the Noi Bai Taxi Company carrying about 200 kg of rotten and stinking animal organs. The police found five cartons containing rotten animal tripe, liver and heart, and each carton had a control stamp from Vietnam Airlines, on which the flight number was shown. The taxi driver, Le An Ninh, 35, a resident of Hanoi’s Soc Son District, failed to show any documents related to the origin of the goods. He just said that he had been hired by a woman to transport them from the airport to Van Phuc Ward in Ha Dong. Trinh Ba Quang, head of Market Management Team No. 26, said that the animal organs had been transported to Hanoi from HCMC by air for sale. On April 2, the station incinerated 1.2 tons of suckling pigs that had blood under the skin. It was surprising that sick pigs had been granted a certificate of quarantine from the Quang Ngai Veterinary Sub-department and then got through six other animal quarantine stations from Quang Ngai to Dong Nai Province.