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At animal quarantine in New Chitose Airport, an infectious strain of foot-and-mouth disease virus was detected in raw goat meat that a traveler from China had attempted to bring into Japan. This is the first time the virus has been found in meat seized during animal quarantine, and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries says the border check successfully kept it from entering the country. Foot-and-mouth disease is extremely contagious, and once it spreads to livestock, culling every animal on the affected farms becomes unavoidable — Miyazaki Prefecture saw a massive outbreak of it in 2010. On the thread, posters worried that other contaminated meat may already be slipping past quarantine, questioned why anyone would want to bring in raw meat in the first place, and pointed out inconsistencies in how quarantine is enforced compared to goods from other countries.
Infectious Foot-and-Mouth Virus Found in Raw Goat Meat Brought from China — First Confirmed Case at New Chitose Airport Quarantine – Sankei News
2026/9/10 15:31
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries announced on the 10th that it had confirmed an infectious strain of foot-and-mouth disease virus in raw goat meat that a passenger from China attempted to bring into New Chitose Airport in January. This is the first time the virus has been found in meat or other items seized during animal quarantine. The meat was intercepted at the border, and officials say entry into the country was prevented.
Source: sankei.com / Original article here
What people said
A Chinese researcher stole raw, live Ebola virus from a Canadian research institute and was arrested by police for carrying it in hand luggage on an international passenger flight.
It's also come out that researchers at Biopreparat, the Soviet bioweapons research agency, developed biological weapons targeting not just humans but crops and livestock too.
That's not just drool from the guy who tried to smuggle it in, right?
The meat used for Genghis Khan is sheep, though (lol)
Probably just because it's cheap? Especially since almost nowhere in Japan serves goat.
Goat cuisine —
like maybe they wanted to bring the ingredients for goat hot pot
to cook for an acquaintance living in Japan or something
Still nothing but a nuisance either way
If foot-and-mouth disease wipes out the livestock industry, that would weaken the Agriculture Ministry's clout too — isn't it more reasonable to assume the Finance Ministry put them up to it?
When I was in Nagoya for work,
a Chinese restaurant there just casually had grilled goat skewers on the menu
Thought it looked unusual so I ordered it without much thought
and it was unbelievably gamy, an absolute hell to eat
Really makes you appreciate how well-raised Japan's domesticated beef, pork, and chicken are
This comes up all the time on news specials and on shows like Toppa File
Meat is completely banned, yet these idiot elites keep bringing it in anyway
And foot-and-mouth disease is serious enough that if even one cow at a farm gets infected, every cow there has to be culled within 24 hours
Sounds like a hint at bioterrorism
Correction: being brought in
Japan's inspectors are excellent
The detection dogs are excellent
The inspection equipment is state-of-the-art
Meat is banned across the board, so the dogs catch it right away
smuggled in through some lax regional airport
What's really scary is the stuff from the US that sails right through quarantine
Bringing stuff in your suitcase while traveling — animal and plant quarantine is actually pretty porous
Sausages from Germany, that kind of thing happens all the time
Iberico pork is something ordinary people actually eat, so they probably don't want to see the public enjoying it.
By the way, the Iberico pork import ban has nothing to do with the LDP — it's decided by the Agriculture Ministry without any Diet deliberation.
They're regulating it plenty hard — that's exactly why it's getting confiscated at the airport
It's not even spoiled, so is it really that big a deal?
People are out there disinfecting the soles of their shoes everywhere, and you're this laid-back about it
"I'll bring in some goat meat (carrying a highly contagious virus)!"
Put it that way, and it's not strange at all…
Background and Key Points of This Topic
Foot-and-mouth disease is a highly contagious viral illness that infects cloven-hoofed animals such as cattle, pigs, and goats; once infection is confirmed on a farm, standard practice is to cull essentially every animal there. When it broke out in Miyazaki Prefecture in 2010, roughly 290,000 animals were culled, dealing a major blow to the livestock industry. Japan bans bringing in meat as a rule and has continued intercepting it through animal quarantine, but this is the first time an infectious virus has been confirmed in seized meat — making it a case where the border controls actually worked. Some on the thread suspected the meat was brought in deliberately, but the article itself says nothing about the circumstances or motive behind it, so that remains pure speculation.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (News Express+) thread “Infectious Foot-and-Mouth Virus Found in Raw Goat Meat Brought from China — First Confirmed Case at New Chitose Airport Quarantine.”
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