CBP officers discover bat meat in traveler’s baggage at Washington Dulles Airport

(CNN) — US Customs and Border Safety (CBP) officers inspecting baggage at Washington Dulles Worldwide Airport lately found an uncommon discover: three and a half kilos of bat meat.

Along with bat meat, the traveler was additionally carrying prohibited crops in his baggage, together with 12 kilos of tetraplura (a flowering plant from West Africa), turkey berries (yellow-green, pea-sized berries), and eggplants, authorities mentioned.

The crops have been seized and destroyed, and the meat was turned over to the CDC for additional inspection, the CBP mentioned. The traveler was launched.

“Customs and Border Safety agriculture specialists play a really difficult frontline position in defending the general public, our nation’s agricultural industries, and our financial vitality day-after-day in opposition to the deliberate or unintended introduction of doubtless crippling animal illnesses which may be carried in passenger baggage,” Daniel Escobedo, CBP’s Space Port Director for the Space Port of Washington, DC, mentioned within the launch.

Regardless of these considerations, the bushmeat commerce continues to develop attributable to meals insecurity, amongst different points.