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Taiwan pig farmers threaten protest of ractopamine

pig feedingAgriculture representatives in Taiwan threatened to stage a large-scale protest last week if the country were to lift its ban on imports of pork from hogs given the feed additive ractopamine. The threat was prompted by a statement from a Taiwanese agriculture official who said Taiwan “cannot shut its doors to U.S. pork containing ractopamine forever in the face of globalization,” according to the U.S. based National Pork Producers Council. NPPC has been pressing the Obama administration to urge Taiwan to lift the ban, which the organization says is not based on science. NPPC says ractopamine was determined to be safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and is approved for use in pork production in 26 countries, with 75 additional nations allowing the importation of pork from hogs fed ractopamine.

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