China seeks additional testing on U.S. pork exports
China wants a third party to verify that U.S. pork shipped to the country is free of the ractopamine additive, starting on March 1. The news was reported by Reuters from the U.S. Meat Export Federation.
The move by China, the world's biggest producer and consumer of the meat and the third-largest market for U.S. pork, baffled analysts since Beijing has not recently reported finding ractopamine in any pork from the United States. Russia recently banned U.S. beef and pork exports because of ractopamine usage.