Meat cheats nabbed by NEA

As cost and competition escalate, 31 pork retailers have been fined $300 each for trying to pass of thawed frozen pork as chilled fresh pork.Two were supermarkets, while the other were retailers at wet and dry markets. It declined to reveal names, as they were first-time offenders.A pork retailer at a wet market said some stallholder resort to such methods as competition from supermarkets has made it difficult to earn a profit. Of the 13 stalls selling pork at the market,he claimed, two or three mixed frozen pork in with the chilled pork alternative.

Views->They should impose a heavier fine for those who try to pass of thawed frozen pork as chilled fresh pork as thawed meat the is refrozen carriers a "risk of contamination" and could result in food poisoning.