Animals
found in Gan – a tributary of the Yangtze – in Jiangxi, which supplies
drinking water to the provincial capital, Nanchang
Chinese authorities have found 157 dead pigs in a river, state media have said, underscoring the country's food safety problems a year after 16,000 carcasses were discovered in Shanghai's main waterway.
The
animals were recovered from the Gan river in Jiangxi, which supplies
drinking water to the provincial capital Nanchang, the official news
agency Xinhua said on Wednesday.
Tests showed that the tapwater remains safe for drinking, it said, citing Nanchang authorities.
The Gan is a tributary of the Yangtze, one of China's
main waterways. "Another 20 pigs have been fished out of the Gan
river, for a total of 157," state broadcaster CCTV said on Sina Weibo, a
Chinese version of Twitter.
Photos posted by CCTV showed staff in
white clothing and face masks inspecting carcasses lined up on a
riverbank. Ear tags indicated that the animals came from Zhangshu, part
of Yichun city in the central Chinese province, CCTV said, citing
Jiangxi's agriculture department.
An official with the Yichun
agriculture bureau said it was unclear where the pigs originated.
Zhangshu authorities could not immediately be reached.
China was stunned a year ago by the appearance of more than 16,000 dead pigs floating along parts of the Huangpu river,
which flows through Shanghai – one of a series of food safety scandals
in recent years. No official explanation was given for the incident,
which embarrassed China's commercial hub. Last May, police detained 900
people for crimes including selling rat and fox meat as beef and mutton.
In 2008, six babies died and 300,000 fell ill in a scandal involving contaminated milk powder.
Public
concern about food safety is high. In his address to China's parliament
this month, the premier, Li Keqiang, promised to "apply the strictest
possible oversight, punishment and accountability to prevent and control
food contamination and ensure that every bite of food we eat is safe".
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This picture taken on March 18, 2014 shows a dead pig wrapped in plastic
sheets on the bank of the Gan river in Nanchang, in eastern China's
Jiangxi province. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
This picture taken on March 18, 2014 shows dead pigs wrapped in plastic sheets on the bank of the Gan river in Nanchang, in eastern China's Jiangxi province. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
This picture taken on March 18, 2014 shows dead pigs wrapped in plastic sheets on the bank of the Gan river in Nanchang, in eastern China's Jiangxi province. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
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