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THE STATE OF THE TIGER Acknowledgements   Introduction   National Update   International Trade   CITES   Detection of products China   Japan   USA   UK   Global Tiger Forum   MP Tiger State   Poaching and Trade   Timber Mafia   Fish Mafia   Mining   Indrawati   Staff Issues   Nationwide   Kaziranga   Conclusions   International Trade - Detection of products claiming to contain tiger It is vital that legislation includes the prohibition to import, export and sell any product labelled as containing tiger. Enforcement officers cannot verify that every pill or capsule actually contains tiger and to make their enforcement work possible, all products claiming to contain tiger must be prohibited. Following one of EIA's investigations, when the local enforcement agency followed up EIA's information, it found no products labelled as containing tiger. When questioned, it was found that this enforcement agency had failed to use ethnic Chinese investigators and their Caucasian investigators had been told by the pharmacies that they had no products with tiger. This comes as no surprise. When investigations are carried out it is vital to use investigators of Chinese ethnic origin or Japanese citizens in Japan. next... Tigers Home