ASAE – the government-backed food and beverages watchdog – has confiscated what one newspaper describes as 37.5 tons of tofu, while another called it 37.5 tons of soybean seeds.
Whatever the case, it was a huge haul of produce that, if not tofu, is certainly the raw material that goes into its making.
Correio da Manhã announced the swoop on a factory in Porto Alto, Benavente, as “due to deficiencies in hygiene conditions”.
The merchandise – valued at €39,000 – also lacked importation papers.
CM writes that ASAE is now “analysing” the factory’s “method of making tofu”.
But Diário de Notícias hardly mentions tofu – simply referring to the goods seized as being 37.5 tons of soybean seeds.
As ASAE’s investigations continue, the factory has been temporarily shutdown.
