Six people jailed for selling shoddy pork

Six people have been given sentences of between two and three years for processing and selling 200 kilograms of substandard pork daily in Beijing, according to the Legal Evening News.

When police raided an illegal slaughterhouse in the Haidian district in September 2012, they found 243 kilograms of pork infected with bacteria that could harm consumers.

The owner of the slaughterhouse began killing pigs in the district in July 2011. He bought sick pigs at a very low price, slaughtered them and sold the meat to markets in the area.

The owner was given a sentence of three years and fined 300,000 yuan ($49,180). Five other people who sold pork to or from the same slaughterhouse were imprisoned and fined between 60,000 and 200,000 yuan, police said.