Story highlights China seizes smuggled frozen meat in month-long crackdown

Some batches said to date back to the 1970s

(CNN) Some 800 tonnes of smuggled frozen meat have been seized by Chinese authorities, including one batch dating from the 1970s, state media reported.

The meat was bound for restaurants, retailers and supermarkets in Hunan province, where it was found, and other Chinese provinces and major cities, according to a report from Xinhua, China's state news agency, on Tuesday.

The meat, which included poultry and beef, was confiscated on June 1 and was worth 10 million yuan ($1.6 million), the English-language China Daily said.



Decades-old meat

Some packages were rotten and others were around 40 years old -- packed and stamped at the height of China's Cultural Revolution.

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