Thai nabbed for bringing pork sausages to Japan

[snoop1130]

Thai nabbed for bringing pork sausages to Japan

By The Nation

 

 

A Thai national has been arrested for bringing sausages containing pork from Thailand into Japan, said the Animal Quarantine Service under the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (AQS). Import of food products with pork as an ingredient is prohibited in Japan, in response to the prevalence of African swine fever (ASF) in several Asian countries.

 

Since 2018, the AQS has been strengthening control measures against foreigners bringing in these products. The measures were further tightened last year, in light of the upcoming Olympics Games in Tokyo .

 

The latest case is the fifth violation of the Domestic Animal Infectious Diseases Control Law and the second involving the same Thai national.

 

The Thai was given a written warning on November 10, 2019 for illegally bringing sausages containing pork from Thailand. Despite the warning, he was arrested again at Narita International Airport for attempting to smuggle in 10.45 kg of sausages on November 25, 2019. AQS at Narita International Airport filed a complaint with police, which led to this arrest.

 

Illegal imports of meat products are subject to "imprisonment for up to 3 years or a fine of up to 1 million yen." Eight people have so far been arrested in five cases.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30382148

 

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[englishoak]

Nonsense, a Thai would never do that... 

[sanemax]

Cannot take sausages into Gullivers Soi 5 either says the Gent ????

[Andrew65]

There's lots of Thai ladies smuggling sausage!????

[trainman34014]

As they barely have a Pork Sausage worth the name he could have bought much better ones in a Japanese Supermarket !

[ratcatcher]

I guess they were not vacuum packed. 

[RubbaJohnny]

Wurst case scenario

[RotBenz8888]

48 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

attempting to smuggle in 10.45 kg of sausages

Must be worth a fortune!

[sammieuk1]

Instead of banger's and mash he ended up with bubble and squeak and no toad in his hole????

[fruitman]

2 hours ago, trainman34014 said:

As they barely have a Pork Sausage worth the name he could have bought much better ones in a Japanese Supermarket !

Wrong my friend...they sell export quality saucages in thailand, they are japanese quality and really good. Nope i won't tell you where they are sold, go and find them.

[Thechook]

2nd offence, lock him up

[Yadon Toploy]

He's bang(er) to rights.

[justin case]

personal consumption ? ???? lol

[AhFarangJa]

Serves him right for telling porkies on his customs form............

[tinca tinca]

16 hours ago, Andrew65 said:

There's lots of Thai ladies smuggling sausage!????

dont you mean SNUGGLING ??

[yokat]

Hardly newsworthy, every people I know visits overseas relative/friends without declaring whatever cheese or sausage they're bringing over. If the smelly stuff is sealed correctly it's unlikely that the dogs find it (if they actually use dogs). This guy was probably red-flagged, being a known offender I wouldn't be surprised if his bag get automatically marked for inspection.

[atyclb]

15 hours ago, fruitman said:

Wrong my friend...they sell export quality saucages in thailand, they are japanese quality and really good. Nope i won't tell you where they are sold, go and find them.

 

 

thai german brand is quite good

[shackleton]

The Customs people suspected he was speaking with Pork Tongue

Checked him out and found the Pork sausages 

[sharksy]

That's nothing.

My Thai lady come back last week to the UK with RATS, among other things.

She was quite put out, when National Express refused to accept a bag of luggage which contained a load of wrapped food (rats included).

[bendejo]

No need to teach a dog how to sniff out pork sausages, eh?