Guanacos, pork-legged crabs: the unusual and forbidden thing that they tried to enter the country

A guanaco, crabs, stuffed sardines, sausages hidden in car engines, raw pork legs … What foreign visitors or, in some cases, the Argentineans have themselves tried to bring either upon their arrival at Ezeiza International Airport, or when crossing the border by Paraguay, Bolivia or Brazil is usually amazing.

But you can not enter for the risk of contagion of any disease in the country and Senasa, if they are detected, confiscated then proceeds to their destruction.

The case concerning banned products that one seeks to introduce has been back in the news in recent days when a Chinese citizen
He wanted to pbad 6 pig thighs that he had brought in a suitcase between his clothes. The scanner has detected it. The pig's legs were confiscated and destroyed. In China, African swine fever, a deadly disease, kills millions of pigs. In Argentina, alarms have been triggered to prevent any introduction of the virus.

Among the most striking discoveries discovered at Ezeiza Airport was the corpse of a guanaco. He arrived on a flight from Peru. "We do not know what they wanted to do," said a source at the agency.

He was also tempted to spend with lobsters and crabs during a flight from China. The lobster was packaged in an artisbad way with ice for preservation.

Cheeses, sausages, seeds, preserves, among other products, were also detected and could not be entered.

Strictly speaking, according to the Senasa can not be entered with:

• Food: homemade products, meat of all animal species, sausages, sausages, hams, honey, dairy products and by-products, food without identification or label.
• Vegetables: fresh fruits and vegetables; flowers and garden plants; fruit, ornamental and forest plants; vegetables and their parts (seeds, roots, buds, etc.)
• Live Animals: In the case of pets, you must know the conditions of admission.
• Other products: animal feed, apicultural products (wax, propolis, etc.), veterinary products (serums, vaccines and others), insects, bacteria, fungi, reproductive material and other micro-organisms for research.

"With all that is meat, the problem is that if it has bone, it can have aphtous, for example," warned one source. It should be recalled that Argentina has been recognized as a free country of vaccination in northern Patagonia. In birds, Argentina is free from Newcastle disease. Also avian influenza. In the case of pork production, the goal is to avoid African swine fever.

Beyond the scanner's action, Senasa has trained dogs to detect the products.

Among the unusual cases, sausages and sausages were detected in the car's engine in markets bordering Brazil and Paraguay.

On the other hand, among the authorized products are:

• Preserves: fish, pork, birds.
• Dairy products: pasteurized fluid milk, condensed milk, milk powder, yoghurt, butter, caramel, pasteurized milk cheese
• Processed fruits or vegetables: potato chips, fruit in syrup, pickled vegetables or other preservatives, canned fruits and vegetables, grilled and / or salted dry products (peanuts, almonds, etc.), canned or packaged vegetables under vacuum.
• Other products: jams, candied fruit, juice, sugar, oil.
• Pork products: Serrano and Iberian ham, boneless Iberian loin cut or rolled, from Spain, vacuum packed or in a factory controlled atmosphere, duly labeled, identified and freely marketed in that country.

During the procedure, the confiscated goods are thrown into a waste depot. Then, as they explained, it is sprayed with a denaturing liquid and driven into a pyrolysis oven to be burned. Everything is done in the same terminal and the company that performs the latter task issues a certificate of destruction of the product. The owner of the confiscated objects is invited to testify when the seized objects are denatured.