Droppings found on meat
A truckload of frozen lamb was rejected at Lyttelton this week after watersiders found droppings — believed to be from rats — on two or three carcases. The six-tonne truckload was part of a shipment for Peru being loaded aboard the refrigerated cargo vessel Anona, which sailed for Bluff yesterday. Mr Brian Stevens, a wharf supervisor for Union Maritime Services, Ltd, said that eight or nine droppings had been found on the stockingcovered carcases. “I think it was rats, but I am not an expert on rat droppings,” he said. Mr Stevens, said that while it was fairly unusual for meat to be rejected on the wharf, this was not a bad case of its kind.
“It was no big deal, really,” he said.
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Press, 30 August 1986, Page 2
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