泰国和越南多地接连查获肉类走私案件，引发担忧：动物源疾病可能重创地区牲畜种群，不安全的食品也可能流入消费者餐桌。
A flurry of meat seizures across Thailand and Vietnam has raised fears of animal-borne diseases devastating regional livestock populations and unsafe food ending up on consumers’ plates.
在能源和物流成本上涨的推动下，不法供应商把目标对准了急于保住利润的餐馆和菜市场，向其供应廉价、不受监管的肉品，其中甚至包括过期或带有疫病的肉类。
Driven by rising energy and logistics costs, unscrupulous suppliers have targeted restaurants and wet markets desperate to protect margins by sourcing cheap, unregulated cuts – even those past their expiry date or tainted with disease.
10月21日，越南南部同奈省警方捣毁了一个犯罪团伙，该团伙被控向国内买家贩运约400吨感染非洲猪瘟的廉价猪肉，买家包括商业春卷生产商。这种病毒对人类无害，但足以使猪群大量死亡。
On October 21, police in Vietnam’s southern province of Dong Nai dismantled a syndicate accused of trafficking an estimated 400 tonnes of cut-price pigs infected with African swine fever to domestic buyers, including commercial spring roll makers. While harmless to humans, the virus is capable of decimating pig populations.
在泰国，与四个邻国之间管控松散的边境，加上庞大的国内食品产业，使当局同样面临走私肉品和无证牲畜部件激增的问题。
In Thailand, where porous borders with four neighbours meet a vast domestic food industry, authorities are facing a similar spike in smuggled meat and undocumented livestock parts.
周三，食品安全检查人员在曼谷郊外发现两辆卡车，运载着26吨冷冻鸡胸肉，使用的是伪造的许可证。这批货物来自正因禽流感受到监控的巴吞他尼府，目的地是靠近马来西亚边境的宋卡府。
Food safety inspectors found two trucks outside Bangkok on Wednesday carrying 26 tonnes of frozen chicken breast transported using forged permits. Originating from Pathum Thani, a province under surveillance for bird flu, the cargo was headed for Songkhla, near the Malaysian border.
邻国柬埔寨、老挝和缅甸也报告称，定期查获运往国内市场的非法和变质肉类，凸显出整个湄公河流域在执法方面面临的更广泛困境。但问题并不限于低成本供应商。
Neighbouring Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar have also reported regular seizures of illicit and spoiled meat bound for domestic markets – highlighting a broader regional enforcement struggle across the Mekong basin. But the problem extends beyond low-cost suppliers.
10月25日，曼谷素万那普机场海关官员查获了两吨冒充海鲜申报的法国高档肉类，包括野猪肉、鹌鹑、鸽子、咸牛肉、萨拉米香肠和帕尔马火腿。
On October 25, customs officials at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport confiscated two tonnes of premium French meats – including wild boar meat, quail, pigeon, salted beef, salami and Parma ham – falsely declared as seafood.
泰国农业与合作社部部长秘书、披拉披伦农业与粮食安全联合中心主任索拉武·嫩占隆表示：“这些产品可能携带传染性动物疾病，对消费者构成风险。”
“These products may carry infectious animal diseases and pose a risk to consumers,” said Sorawut Nueangchamrong, secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives and head of the Phra Phirun Joint Centre for Agricultural and Food Security.
当局根据情报线索采取行动，从一个机场仓库查获了这批货物，并指出这些肉块原本要供应给高端餐厅。索拉武警告说，口蹄疫、块状皮肤病和非洲猪瘟可能摧毁当地畜群，引发大规模扑杀，并造成持久的经济损失。
Acting on an intelligence tip-off, authorities seized the shipment from an airport warehouse, noting the cuts were destined for high-end restaurants. Sorawut warned that foot-and-mouth disease, lumpy skin disease and African swine fever could devastate local herds, trigger mass culls and inflict lasting economic damage.
他说：“样本已被送去实验室检测，查获的产品已被扣押以进行销毁，以防止疾病可能传播。”
“Samples have been sent for laboratory testing, and the seized products have been impounded for destruction to prevent the potential spread of disease,” he said.
非法进口也损害了泰国国内农民的利益。泰国是世界上最大的禽肉出口国之一，而其价值数十亿美元的养猪业则继续游说曼谷，在双边贸易谈判中阻止廉价、经过莱克多巴胺处理的美国猪肉进入。
Illegal imports also undercut Thailand’s domestic farmers. The kingdom is among the world’s largest poultry exporters, while its multibillion-dollar swine industry continues to lobby Bangkok to keep out cheap, ractopamine-treated American pork during bilateral trade negotiations.
曼谷对廉价肉类的需求无穷无尽，每年有成千上万家新餐厅开业——这些餐厅往往由没有餐饮业背景、急于在这个竞争激烈的行业中获利的人开设。
Demand for cheap meat is endless in Bangkok, where thousands of new restaurants open each year – frequently opened by those without a background in the food business and desperate to make a profit in the cutthroat industry.
“食品行业肯定一直存在欺诈，但我怀疑它最终会进入酒店和高级餐厅。使用标签错误产品的风险太高了——为了省几块钱，损失很大，却毫无好处，”一位与顶级餐厅合作的厨师说。
“There’s fraud for sure in food all the time, but I doubt it ends up in hotels and fine dining restaurants. The risks of using mislabelled products are too high – there’s a lot to lose and nothing to gain by saving a few bucks,” said a chef who works with top-tier restaurants.
他补充说：“最大的担忧是食品安全。”他指出，准入门槛低以及销售点原产地标签松懈，使得在东南亚开办食品企业很容易。“你不像在欧洲那样受法律约束，在那里你必须通过所有检查才能开餐厅。”泰国国立法政大学食品安全国际联合研究中心联合创始主任阿万维·佩奇孔胶博士说，走私农产品完全绕过了针对人畜共患疾病、重金属和化学残留的关键安全检查。
“The biggest concern is food safety,” he added, noting the low barriers to entry and lax point-of-sale provenance labelling made setting up a food business easy in Southeast Asia. “You’re not bound by anything like the laws in Europe where you have to get everything inspected before you can open a restaurant.”Smuggled produce completely bypassed crucial safety checks for zoonotic diseases, heavy metals and chemical residues, said Dr Awanwee Petchkongkaew, co-founding director of the International Joint Research Centre on Food Security at Thammasat University.
她说：“运输时，肉类应储存在冷链中。我不太确定在非法运输的情况下，他们能否提供安全的温度来遏制食源性污染。”
“When you transport, meat should be stored in a cold chain. I’m not really sure when it is moved illegally that they can provide a safe temperature to contain food-borne contamination,” she said.
她补充说，鉴于货运量巨大，泰国当局无法检查每一批货物，并指出主要弱点在于“食品追溯系统”，而这一系统对于确保送上餐桌的产品来自安全的食品来源和加工环节至关重要。
Thai authorities could not check every shipment given the volume, she added, noting that the main weakness lay in the “food traceability system” needed to ensure products reaching the table come from safe food sources and handling.