‘This individual showed complete disregard for the health and safety of the U.S. consumer,’ says Eddy Wang with Homeland Security Investigations.
A Pomona man with a wholesale food business in Industry faces a possible 21 years in federal prison for trying to sneak in frozen roasted eels adulterated with unsafe animal drugs that already had been rejected by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Kevin Sheng Hsiang Fang, 41, and Yong Chang Trading Co., doing business as Heng Xing Foods, each pleaded guilty on May 31 to smuggling and introducing the food into interstate commerce, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office.“This individual showed complete disregard for the health and safety of the U.S.
Frozen roasted eels adulterated with unsafe animal drugs that already had been rejected by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. A shipment of Fang’s imported Chinese eels had been tested by the Food and Drug Administration, found to be unsafe for human consumption and rejected. Fang admitted to re-importing the rejected eels using new entry information and co-mingling them with other eels to evade detection, Mrozek said.
He tried to smuggle in the roasted eels adulterated with gentian violet and leucogentian violet, and others with malachite green, in 2017, court documents showIn February 2017, the eels he brought were rejected by the FDA. Then he tried to bring some of the same eels back into the U.S. in October 2017 in a second shipment that mixed some of the tainted eels with “clean” eels, Mrozek said.
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