This was welcome news to the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC), but the organization said in a news release that the damage to the U.S. pork industry from mislabeling the strain “swine flu” had been done.
“Before the flu outbreak,” said Neil Dierks, CEO of the NPPC, “pork producers were losing money, but things were looking up because we were heading into the grilling season. When this flu was misnamed, things went south, and producers’ losses nearly doubled.”