ALOR STAR – The Malaysian Quarantine and Inspection Services Department (Maqis) has foiled an attempt to bring in frozen chicken worth RM495,608.
Kedah Maqis director Lily Rosalind Paul said the poultry failed to meet import permit requirements and were seized at the Bukit Kayu Hitam Immigration, Customs, Quarantine and Security Complex near here on Sunday.
She said that a routine inspection at 4pm on a container lorry found 5,161 boxes containing frozen chicken weighing 61,932kg.
“This frozen chicken from Thailand did not comply with import requirements and is believed to have come from an unrecognised slaughterhouse,” she said in a statement today.
Lily Rosalind added that, on the same day, Maqis also confiscated mushroom seeds and sausages worth RM854.
The lorry driver could not produce an import permit or documents for the goods, she said. – Bernama, January 26, 2021
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