Customs officers have arrested a 52-year-old man for smuggling $8 million worth of health food, dried seafood, and endangered species.

Officers stopped his truck at Lok Ma Chau control point on January 5, declared to be carrying 9,675kg of "deer antlers".

They found dried crocodylia meat, birds' nests, dried syngnathus, dried seahorses, dried snake galls, dried deer tails, dried deer tendons, dried geckos, and New Zealand honey.

The crocodylia and seahorses were endangered species.