Department of Livestock Development (DLD) officers swooped to prevent an outbreak of Asian Swine Fever (ASF) thanks to the agency’s trusty beagles sniffing out a traveller’s illegal pork sausages at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok.
DLD Deputy Director and spokesperson Sophat Chavarnkul provided a report on the operation conducted by the DLD-Quarantine and Inspection K9 Unit at the airport yesterday, July 16. Sophat reported that the officers and their beagles successfully detected and confiscated 8.5 kilogrammes of illegal pork sausages from the luggage of a foreign traveller.
This kind of sausage is mostly found in hot pot restaurants in Thailand, especially Chinese-style hot pot dishes.
The sausages were seized due to the absence of a necessary health certificate. This preventive measure has been in effect since 2018,…
