Animal 0 Posté(e) le 10 novembre 2006 Poisonous pig farmer held Joey Yang 2006-11-04 POLICE from Pudong have detained a pig farmer from Zhejiang Province who allegedly fed a banned chemical to his animals so they would grow more lean meat, which left hundreds of city residents sick in September. About 300 people in nine districts across the city were hospitalized after eating tainted pork earlier this year. Victims of clenobuterol hydrochloride poisoning suffer increased heart rates, fatigue, hand tremors and vomiting. All 300 of the victims were released from hospital following treatment. Imaginez ce que devaient ressentir ces pauvres cochons, qui eux bouffaient ce poison tous les jours ... The suspect, a 36-year-old farmer police would only identify by the surname Xu, was detained in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province on October 28 and has been escorted back to the city. Prior to Xu's arrest, city police in cooperation with their colleagues in Zhejiang captured two pork merchants surnamed Wu and Li in the mid of September, several days after the outbreak of pork poisoning cases in Shanghai on September 13. Police said Wu purchased 130 pigs from Xu for Li, who owned a livestock slaughterhouse in Haiyan County of Zhejiang. Li sold the meat and guts at his two stalls in the Shanghai Agricultural Product Wholesale Market in Pudong, from where they were distributed to 66 wet markets across Shanghai. Wu and Li were charged with processing and selling toxic food by the Pudong New Area Prosecutor's Office on October 20. Suspect Xu allegedly told police he purchased 150 grams of clenbuterol for 1,150 yuan (US$144) from a street vendor in his hometown in August and fed it to his pigs for the next 20 days. Police say he stopped adding the chemical to the pigs' feed three days before selling them to Wu, believing all of the clenobuterol would be out of the pigs' systems by that time. Xu, who has been raising pigs for two years, allegedly said he decided to add clenbuterol to the pigs' food because Shanghai natives favor lean meat. http://www.shanghaidaily.com/art/2006/11/04/296115/Poisonous_pig_farmer_held.htm Partager ce message Lien à poster Partager sur d’autres sites
