Authorities at Egypt's Red Sea port of Safaga destroyed on Thursday 146 tonnes of bad fish which had been exported to Saudi Arabia, but which the gulf country refused to receive, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.

The decision by the General Organisation for Export and Import control to destroy the eight shipments of fish came after the Gulf Kingdom refused them at its Daba Port saying they were unsuitable for human use. The shipments were then returned to Safaga.

The exporters requested an inspection of the shipments upon their return, said Al-Walid Hassan, food control manager at the Safaga Port. A committee of health ministry food safety and animal quarantine experts then examined the fish and confirmed it was unsuitable for consumption.

Ten committees of customs, food control, police, environment and other Egyptian official bodies supervised the destruction

Source: Ahram online