China launches clean-up on tainted pig feed

China's government has launched a year long concentrated effort on illegal additives in pig feed after some pigs owned by meat suppliers tested positive for clenbuterol, a banned chemical that can be dangerous to humans.

Tainted pork has become the latest food safety scandal to shock China after state broadcaster CCTV ran an expose earlier this month showing that a subsidiary of China's largest meat producer, based in central Henan province, used pork tainted with the fat-burning drug clenbuterol in its products. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little The Global Miller, published and supported by the GFMT Magazine from Perendale Publishers.