UK imports Chinese food importer costs sharply

Xinhua Beijing, February 5, according to the British "Chinese business newspaper" reported here today, the reporter learned from the British port Quarantine Department, the recent period of time, the British import quarantine Department of imports of Chinese food inspection is very strict. Last week customs found more than 200 boxes of instant noodles from a container in Ningbo, after a 120-box jellyfish was found in a Chinese-made decoration from China two weeks ago.　　According to British law, all imports of seafood, meat products, dairy products, eggs from outside the EU, if not declared, will be confiscated once found. The reporter learned that at present, the Frontier Inspection Department of Food inspection more and more stringent, the declaration of imports of Chinese food, most of the sampling check.　　The sample inspection rate was much higher than before, and unqualified food was required to be returned to China or destroyed on site, and the importer had to bear the cost of testing and destroying. Recently seized Chinese food is mainly with meat seasoning package of instant noodles, all kinds of vacuum meat products, seafood vacuum packaging and some milk candy. Some Chinese food importers said that the import of food at the time of entry will be more than two or three weeks delay, greatly increasing the cost of stranded and other costs.　　The quarantine department wants that, the various proofs are multifarious, quite cumbersome. The British border control agency and the port quarantine department said they will intensify the crackdown, on the one hand, continue to spot checks from the trade channel imports of products, the container to expand the number of scanned, to prevent muddle through, on the other hand, strengthen the airport to carry goods inspection.