Illicit Chinese eggs, MSG seized in border town

Tuoi Tre

Market control authorities in Lao Cai town on the Chinese border yesterday caught a local woman smuggling in 9,800 eggs and 250 kg of seasoning powder from China.

Nguyen Quang Hieu, head of the Market Management Team 7A said the woman, Phan Thi Dinh, did not have invoices for the goods.

The MSG was packed in 20 sacks and the eggs were hidden in 13 cartons containing vegetables and fruits, he said.

Dinh, a resident of the town’s Duyen Hai Ward, said she had traveled to Hekou town in China’s Yunnan Province to buy the goods and had brought them back by bus.

She had planned to take them to neighboring Lai Chau Province for sale.

The team has seized the goods pending an investigation.

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