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“;Million Pounds of Rat Meat As Chicken Wings”; Fake-News Report

Fact-check by Hoax-SlayerPublished 1 min read

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The claim

Report circulating via social media claims that the FDA has found a million pounds of rat meat at the Port of San Francisco that was destined to be sold as chicken wings across the United States.

Million Pounds Of Rat Meat Being Sold As Boneless Chicken Wings In U.S The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) at the Port of San Francisco destroyed numerous illegal containers imported into the U.S from China. These containers contained rat meat!

Rated Hoax by Hoax-Slayer.

What the fact-checkers found

The claims are utter nonsense. The FDA has made no such discovery. The fictional story comes from a factually dubious “healthy advice” website. The original version of the story came from the notorious fake-news website World News Daily Report.

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