Portugal’s food and safety authority ASAE has offered 10 tons of meat to Lisbon Zoo which gratefully has been accepted.
The meaty bonus will feed the Zoo’s carnivores for more than two months.
"The product donated by ASAE on Friday was removed on July 8th from a delivery to a supermarket when, after road accident on the A1, the refrigeration unit was damaged," said an ASAE spokesman.
After becoming aware of the accident, ASAE officers went to the crash site to assess the load and determined that the meat should not be sold in the supermarket chain’s outlets so it was impounded.
The food was then safeguarded and stored in a secure environment until the zoo accepted the offer.
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This is the sort of quick 'out of the box' thinking (well 10 days is quick here) that Portugal so desperately needs ... and which no doubt is shown world wide by the emigrant Portuguese. Many in high powered jobs with large staff and trusted to control multi-million dollar budgets.
Such as this young 32 year old Portuguese woman - Joana Rego - considered one of the under-35's most likely to succeed - but in the UK ! In Portugal would she have been held back (like us British routinely are) and working a till in Minipreco?
If you really want to meet her to find out why the British rate her as special - try pretending you are an underprivileged teenager.
http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/go/35-women-under-35-2015-joana-rego-gpw/