China rejects pork imports from U.S., Canada [View All]

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Says found traces of banned growth agent in shipments


Updated: 7:02 a.m. CT Sept 15, 2007
BEIJING - China has rejected shipments of pork kidney from the United States and of spare ribs from Canada after finding traces of a banned growth agent in them, in the latest volley of cross-border accusations over product quality.

The Xinhua news agency cited the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) as saying that the 18.4-tonne shipment of frozen kidneys and the 24-tonne shipment of frozen pork ribs had been returned to the exporters by local quarantine officials in southern Guangdong province.

The growth agent ractopamine, commonly used in the United States, is at the center of negotiations between U.S. and Chinese officials over the pork trade.

China has banned use of ractopamine and refuses to import pork containing it.



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