Smuggled Pork Sausage is Definitely NOT Baby Formula
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents see strange things all the time, so they likely weren’t too surprised when they found pork sausages in canisters of baby formula. A woman from El Salvador evidently felt powdered formula was more easily replaced than the pork product, but now she’ll never know. Border agents at Washington Dulles International Airport confiscated and incinerated the sausages and sent her on her way.
According to information from CBP, on any given day last year, CBP agriculture specialists typically seized an average of 4,638 prohibited plants, meats, animal byproducts and soil; and intercepted 352 insect pests at U.S. ports of entry.
“Swine meat from El Salvador is prohibited from entering the United States due to the presence of swine vesicular disease (SVD), a highly contagious viral disease of pigs caused...
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