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Weekly Overview: New Method Tests Pork Provenance

2013-09-16 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

ANALYSIS - At the start of this week promoting the UK's quality assurance scheme - Red Tractor - a new scientific test has been launched that can identify the country of origin of animal products. Applied first by the pig industry, the test has already revealed some evidence of mis-labelling at one supermarket chain. In the US, the number of new cases of the pig diarrhoea virus continues to rise but at a steady rather than a dramatic rate.

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