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.
via Business feed http://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/1238158/smithfield-bows-china-pressure-over-pork-additive
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