CHINA PROBES JIANGXI-REARED PIGS AFTER HONG KONG REGULATORS DISCOVER DRUG CONTAMINATION
August 1st, 2016
INVESTIGATIONS into the health of pigs being exported from Jiangxi, eastern China to Hong Kong, is under investigation after Chinese authorities blocked the trade following a warning from Hong Kong’s Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD).
Pigs from Jiangxi make up around 20% of hogs imported into the special administrative region from the Chinese mainland, which supplies the vast majority of pigs slaughtered in Hong Kong. According to China’s Pork Network information source, citing data for a typical day in Hong Kong, of the 3,984 live pigs to be ...
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