It is strictly forbidden to carry or mail! For the first time, Beijing Customs intercepted large snails with live cover covers entering the country

Rule of Law Daily all-media reporter Cai Yanhong

Beijing Customs reported on July 1 that the Beijing Post Office Customs, which belongs to the customs, recently found that the machine inspection image of a certain mail was suspected of shellfish or mollusks when conducting X-ray machine inspection of incoming mail from key countries, and at the same time failed to declare the product name as required. A total of 29 live snails were seized after unpacking. After identification, the batch of living organisms is a large cover snail, which is also the first time that Beijing Customs has intercepted a live cover large snail.

According to reports, the covered large snail, also known as the grape snail, belongs to the large snail family, the shell is thick and solid, oval or spherical, and it is an important phytosanitary pest listed in China's "List of Quarantine Pests entering the country". Such snails can harm more than 100 kinds of herbs, woody, and vines, causing serious harm to vegetables, flowers, sweet potatoes, peanuts, etc., and even eating up plant branches and leaves. In particular, it is extremely harmful to the soybean seedling stage, which causes leaf and stem damage, late emergence of zombie seedlings, and a decline in the seedling formation rate; heavy soybean seedlings are all eaten, resulting in no seedlings. At the same time, its reproduction rate is very fast, and once introduced, it can spread rapidly through various channels. According to the "List of Animals and Plants and Their Products Prohibited from Being Carried or Mailed into The People's Republic of China", it is strictly forbidden to carry or mail into the country and other activities such as large snails.

It is understood that once such harmful organisms are introduced into China's territory, they will pose a serious threat to China's ecosystem and the safety of agricultural and forestry production. Beijing Customs reminds the general public not to introduce, release or discard alien species without authorization, and to avoid violating China's Criminal Law, Biosecurity Law and other laws and regulations, resulting in legal responsibility.

Source: Rule of Law Daily - Legal Network