--FILE--Un vendeur vend chinois au porc un marché libre à Shanghai, Chine, le 5 avril 2012. Près d'un demi-milliard de dollars de viande congelée de contrebande ¨
--FILE--A Chinese vendor sells pork at a free market in Shanghai, China, 5 April 2012. Almost half a billion dollars worth of smuggled frozen meat ¨C some of it rotting and more than 40 years old ¨C has been seized in China, official media have reported. More than 100, 000 tonnes of chicken wings, beef and pork worth up to 3bn yuan ($483m) were seized in the nationwide crackdown, the state-run China Daily newspaper said. °It was smelly and I nearly threw up when I opened the door, ± said an official from Hunan province, where 800 tonnes were seized. Two gangs from the central province were among 14 busted across the country in the operation which concluded earlier this month. Officials from Guangxi, a southern region bordering Vietnam, found some of the meat was °more than 40 years old±, the newspaper said. China Daily said smugglers bought cheap meat abroad, shipped it to Hong Kong and on to Vietnam before bringing it to the mainland.
