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Pig Journal Volume: 51
Publication date: June 2003

Proceedings Section

BOAR TAINT - IS IT AN ISSUE FOR BRITISH PORK?
D.G.S. Burch

Abstract
A survey of the audience at the Pig Veterinary Society meeting was held to assess what was the importance of 'Boar Taint' on the purchase of fresh pig meat. Patriotic support for British pork was unsurprisingly very high (score10/10); but the importance of boar taint was also ranked very high (score 9/10), especially with regard to meat quality and competition from Denmark. If this issue could be overcome, possibly by the reintroduction of castration, British pig meat could compete more equally with Danish or any other European product in quality and national support and make the market grow.

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