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Article

16 Mar 2011

Author:
China Digital Times

China’s largest meat processor apologizes over additive scandal

…[P]ork from a subsidiary of China’s largest meat processor, Shuanghui Group in Henan, has been found to contain traces of...Clenbuterol…[Quoting Xinhua] Clenbuterol is...banned as an additive in pig feed in China because it can end up in the flesh of pigs and is poisonous to humans if injected…The group ordered Jiyuan Shuanghui to halt operations and sent a deputy general manager to the company to impose corrective measures…The Ministry of Agriculture sent a team to Henan Province on Tuesday to investigate, and the provincial government ordered 16 pig farms to halt pig and pork sales and sealed feedstuff suspected to contain the additive…