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.
