CBP Seizes More Than a Million Pounds of Pork From China
CBP seized more than a million pounds of pork coming from China at the New York City area ports last week, an agency spokesman said in an email. "The million-pounds of pork is the largest agricultural seizure in the U.S.,"…
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according to CBP's director of New York field operations, Troy Miller. "More than 100 Customs and Border Protection agricultural specialists and canines from the Department of Agriculture worked to uncover the prohibited food. The pork was smuggled, from China, in various different ways including in ramen noodle bowls to Tide detergent." The seizures occurred over African swine fever concerns, the CBP spokesman said. Reuters reported there are new worries about the spread of ASF after Vietnam reported its first cases of the virus in February.