ASAE dismantles clandestine game meat storage and distribution facility in Beja

The Food and Economic Security Authority (ASAE) has dismantled a clandestine enterprise for the storage and distribution of game meat, confiscating two tons of wild boar and deer meat, in the municipality of Beja, it was announced this Wednesday.

In its statement, ASAE indicates that in recent weeks, through the Southern Regional Unit – Operational Unit of Évora, it has carried out an inspection operation aimed at an economic operator involved in the storage and dispatch of game meat (boar and deer).

In this action, aimed at verifying compliance with the rules to which it is subject, ASAE confirmed that these activities “materialized illegally, in a disguised manner and without the knowledge and appropriate approval” of the competent authorities.

“This location was registered and registered only as a fruit storage facility, without any guarantees regarding the technical functional condition, as well as significant guarantees that these facilities provide adequate handling of animal carcasses,” the document says.

In connection with the observance of sanitary, hygienic and unsanitary conditions, the ASPP opened a case of administrative violation; two tons of meat (50 carcasses of wild boar and deer) were also seized, and after a medical and veterinary examination it was established that two tons of meat (50 carcasses of wild boar and deer ) meat.

As such, ASAE says it has prevented the meat from reaching commercial outlets and public consumption, so two tonnes of meat have been “dispatched for destruction” to a unit licensed for this purpose.