{"id":310714,"date":"2025-12-11T21:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/310714\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:04:07","slug":"frozen-pangolin-among-illegal-bushmeat-seized-in-deptford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/310714\/","title":{"rendered":"Frozen pangolin among illegal bushmeat seized in Deptford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Illegally imported meat bypasses the safety and hygiene checks required for food sold in the UK and could carry diseases and contaminants that put consumers at risk, the FSA added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some species, such as pangolins, are also critically endangered and all commercial trade of them is prohibited internationally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Simon Ashwin, senior investigator at the FSA&#8217;s National Food Crime Unit, said the operation was part of ongoing work &#8220;to disrupt the illegal meat trade&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The FSA advises consumers not to buy or eat illegally imported meat, including bushmeat, as it may pose serious health risks,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If you have concerns about products being sold, contact your local authority.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The FSA said inquiries were ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Illegally imported meat bypasses the safety and hygiene checks required for food sold in the UK and could&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-310714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}