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Raw Deal: Officials Seize 27 Kilograms Of Meat Found In Luggage At Toronto Airport

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 15 Jun, 2015 11:28 AM
    TORONTO — Canadian border officials have butchered a traveller's plan to bring a stash of raw meat into the country.
     
    The Canadian Border Services Agency says 27 kilograms of undeclared raw meat were seized at Toronto's Pearson International Airport last Tuesday.
     
    The agency says they were first alerted to the cache when a detector dog smelled something funny at a baggage carousel.
     
    When the luggage was brought into a secondary inspection area, border officers found a selection of products including partly frozen beef cuts, whole goose and smaller avian birds.
     
    A traveller from Egypt was counselled about the requirement to declare all food, plant, animals and related products.
     
    The meat was seized and destroyed.
     
    The border agency says many travellers are unaware that undeclared meat, animal hides, live birds, plants and fruit may damage Canada's food supply, economy, environment and pose a risk to human health.

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