As of Wednesday, China is no longer allowing pork imports from processing plants Tyson Foods in Iowa and Indiana, Hormel Foods Corp in Nebraska, Triumph Foods in Missouri, and Quality Pork Processors Inc. in Minnesota. In total there are 12 facilities (6 processing and 6 cold storage) who have been shut out due to a recent ban on growth additives in pigs. In order to ship pork products into the country, producers must secure third-party verification to confirm that ractopamine, a feed additive, is not present.
China Daily reports that domestically, China often takes such measures to ensure safety in their products though the move to expand to imported products have been new. Although China remains the world's largest producer of pork, in 2013 the country increased its import of meat by 11.7% from 2012.
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