Recently, at the supervision site of the Jinling Customs Office in the Post Office, an inbound parcel sent to Nanjing was automatically caught by the Customs Postal Items Management System.
Customs Inspection Organizer Wan Li: This parcel has already undergone risk data screening before arriving at the Jinling Customs Office in the Post Office' Incoming Mail Inspection Area, and after being judged to have a national biosecurity access risk, the on-site customs officer immediately made a second pass judgment, which was seized by us.
The content of the declaration of the mail is test tube, so why does such a parcel have the risk of national biosecurity access? Officials at the scene immediately dismantled the inspection, and the results were surprising.
Customs inspection organizer Wan Li: The relevant product name information on the face sheet is suspected of being falsely reported, and the name declaration of the test tube used is declared, but in fact, after we opened the mail package, we found that there were fifty live spiders hidden inside.
This is the first time that our Jinling Customs has seized a live spider this year. This was identified as the Pink-footed Bird-Eating Spider of the Venezuelan Giant.
It is understood that the Venezuelan giant pink-footed bird-eating spider is a huge bird-eating spider, which was stationed at the Post Office of Jinling Customs this time
Some of the 50 live spiders intercepted by the Office were 10 centimetres long.
Due to the small production, the Venezuelan giant pink-footed bird-eating spider is expensive, selling for up to about 2,000 yuan per stick, which is highly sought after by some pet lovers.
In recent years, with the growth of the domestic pet market demand, many pet lovers often raise these exotic rare species as pets, and the customs reminds the public not to illegally enter the territory of rare pets.
Customs Inspection Organizer Wanli: Live alien species entering through this channel have not gone through any quarantine approval procedures, their source and variety and health status are unknown, and the risk of inspection is difficult to assess.
It has brought major security risks to China's ecology, as well as agriculture and other fields.
According to the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Quarantine of Animals and Plants Entering and Leaving the Country and the relevant provisions of the Directory of Animals and Plants and Their Products prohibited from being carried and mailed into the country by the People's Republic of China, live insects are prohibited from being mailed into the country, except for those approved by the relevant competent administrative departments of the state and have the quarantine certificate issued by the official institutions of the exporting country or region, and the public must not be lucky. At present, the batch of live spiders has been harmlessly treated in accordance with the relevant requirements of quarantine.