Chinese police have arrested 110 people accused of selling pork from
pigs died of diseases.
Seventy-five of the suspects have been prosecuted, the Ministry of
Public Security said Sunday.
Several food quarantine staff are under investigation.
Police confiscated more than 1,000 tons of contaminated pork and 48 tons
of cooking oil processed from the pork and other unclean meats, according to
the ministry.
Since 2008, eleven groups purchased and collected sick and dead pigs
from farms.
They also bribed staff from food supervising authorities to get
quarantine certificates, it added.
The pork then flowed to markets in 11 provinces including Hunan, Henan
and Guangxi, or were processed into bacon, ham or cook oil for sale, it said.
