Overview
- Police seized about 11kg of cane rat and antelope meat in a raid at a property in southeast London.
- Officers arrested a 51-year-old man at the scene, who has been released under investigation.
- The Metropolitan Police carried out the raid with Food Standards Agency officers and the National Food Crime Unit.
- The FSA says illegally imported bushmeat bypasses UK hygiene checks and can carry disease, and it urges people to report suspected sales to local authorities.
- Investigators say this forms part of a wider push to stop unsafe meat reaching the public, with past BBC reporting in 2012 showing similar sales at Ridley Road Market.