By Lin Chia-nan / Staff reporterCoast guard personnel yesterday confiscated raw pork from a Chinese ship in the nation’s contiguous zone near Penghu County, officials said. COA Deputy Minister Huang Chin-cheng (黃金城) said that samples of the pork would be tested for African swine fever, while the remainder would be destroyed. The crew might not be fined for storing the pork, even if the samples tested positive for the disease, as that they were not attempting to smuggle the pork into Taiwan, he said. The interval between new confirmations of infected pork products seized at customs has decreased from 64 days initially to less than a week, indicating that the disease is spreading unabated in China, he said. As of yesterday, 12 seized pork products from China had tested positive for the disease, with the latest two, which were pork sausage products, confirmed on Thursday last week, council data showed.

Source: Taipei Times January 12, 2019 15:56 UTC