The US Customs and Border Control (CBP) on Friday stopped an attempt to smuggle one million pounds of pork from China to the port of New Jersey, leading to the largest seizure of agricultural products in US history.

This happened against the background of the African swine fever (ASF) that is raging in China, destroying the number of animals in the world's largest pork producing country.

More than 100 CBP agricultural specialists and K-9 teams worked to prevent the import of illicit food products. According to Vasily Liakakos, Deputy Chief Specialist in Agriculture, smuggled pork was delivered in packages of ramen noodles and in Tide detergent containers. In some cases, the packaging in the package corresponded to the goods in the declaration, authorities said, but the contents were from banned pork. In other cases, pork was simply packaged among other products.

In the US, CBP teams are working hard to prevent ASF, the deadly swine virus, from entering the country. ASF does not affect humans, but is rapidly spreading among domestic pigs and wild boars. ASF virus survives in fresh meat for 150-180 days. According to reports, the virus can live indefinitely in frozen meat. After checking all 50 transport containers, the confiscated products will be burned.