A traveler arriving from Egypt was found at Toronto Pearson International Airport with luggage filled with 27 kilograms of undeclared, raw meat last week.
On June 9, Canada Border Services Agency officers found the partly frozen beef cuts, a whole goose and some smaller avian birds inside luggage.
The meat was found by a detector dog named Scout, in the baggage carousel of Terminal 1.
Any meat, animal hides, fruit, plants or insects must be declared to Canada Border Services agents. CBSA says that uninspected raw meat may damage Canada’s food supply, economy, environment and human health.
monkeys, including two which had died, hidden under his clothes, federal police said.
It was usually known throughout the building when the inspection was due, so at that time everything was cleaned thoroughly, right down to the inside of the garbage cans. When the inspector arrived (every six months), the gloves went on, and phone calls were made to all of the restaurants. Everyone would make sure everything was in order to pass the inspection.