Pork imported from Ireland contaminated with dioxin

NANJING, Jan. 25 (Chinese media) -- More than 23 tonnes of frozen pork shipped

from Ireland to Nanjing was found to contain toxic dioxin and ordered to be

shipped back on Friday, a local inspection and quarantine authority said Sunday.

The 937 cases of pork, imported by a food company in Suzhou City, was found

to contain the chemical dioxin, according to the Suzhou Municipal Entry-exit

Inspection and Quarantine Bureau. Dioxin is carcinogen specifically linked to

breast cancer.

Inspectors sealed the pork and ordered the company to send it back.

The pork was imported through the Shanghai Customs on Oct. 30.

China's entry-exit and quarantine inspectors detained about 312tonnes of

Irish pork products across the country, the General Administration of Quality

Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) said in December.

AQSIQ suspended the import of Irish pork products and animal feed on Dec. 8

after the products were suspected to be tainted with dioxin.

Local entry-exit and quarantine inspectors were required to recall and

return pork products already in China if they were made in Ireland after Sept.

1.