Smithfield bows to China pressure over pork additive

Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork producer, said it will soon raise half of its hogs on feed that does not contain the additive ractopamine, a lean muscle promoting drug that has been banned in China and Russia.

Two Smithfield plants, which handle 43,000 hogs a day or about 10 per cent of the US industry, already are ractopamine-free, Chief Executive Larry Pope said at the BMO Capital Markets Farm to Market Conference in New York.

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