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816 kilograms of shrimp and crab incinerated in Beira, Mozambique
11:37 CAT | 30 May 2017
Diário de Moçambique
756 kilograms of white shrimp and 60 kilograms of mangrove crab have been incinerated in Beira after laboratory analysis confirmed they were unfit for human consumption due to high levels of coliforms feces (faeces).
According to the Sofala province delegate of the National Fish Research Institute , Vasco Lebre Malate, the produce was seized in March this year at the Chinese Hai Bao company, which moreover operated clandestinely.
Quoted today by Mozambican newspaper Noticias, Malate said that the produce was already processed and was packed in boxes of another company in order to disguise it. The seizure was the result of popular tip-offs that alerted the fisheries authorities to the company’s operations.
Malate said that after the confiscation of the shellfish, DPMAIPS closed the establishment and fined the owner 250,000 meticais (US$4,231). A lawsuit has also been filed against Hai Bao.
“The product was already packaged and ready to be exported to the People’s Republic of China, where it would presumably be sold,” he said.
Source: AIM
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