China Bans Production and Sale of Ractopamine
CHINA - China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced Friday, 23 December, that the country has banned the production and sale of ractopamine, a controversial feed additive used to...

113 Penalised Over Chemical Tainted Pork
CHINA - Central China's Henan Province, a leading agricultural base, has issued heavy sentences to 113 people, including 77 government employees, over a chemical tainted pork scandal reported in March...

Wal-Mart China CEO Quits Amid Pork Scandal
CHINA - The head of Wal-Mart Stores Inc's China business has resigned citing personal reasons, after the world's largest retailer ran into trouble with Chinese authorities leading to store closures and...

Wal-Mart Employees Arrested Following Pork Scandal
CHONGQING, CHINA - Police in Southwest China's Chongqing municipality have arrested two Wal-Mart employees after the company was found to be selling regular pork that was falsely labeled as organic, local...

Loopholes Suspected in Wal-Mart Management
CHONQING, CHINA - Officials with the Chongqing Municipal government said on Tuesday that the business management of Wal-Mart may be "problematic" after 13 Wal-Mart stores in the city were closed temporarily...

Wal-Mart Selling Ordinary Pork as 'Green' Pork
CHINA - The global retail giant Wal-Mart said on Wednesday that consumers who bought ordinary pork sold as higher-quality pork will get double their money back.

Shandong Issues New Pork Quality Rules
CHINA - East China's Shandong province issued new rules that require all pig abattoirs to keep records of animal's source, circulation and consumption information to guarantee its safety, according to...

Two New Lean Pork Drugs Detected in Checks
SHANGHAI, CHINA - Two new chemicals with the same function as clenbuterol hydrochloride - an illegal drug used to produce lean pork - were detected in recent food safety checks, local watchdogs said y...

Pig Farmers Told to Drug Livestock
CHINA - Middlemen were found ordering individual pig raisers to feed the animals a banned chemical that promotes lean pork in order to fatten profits.

JSR Signs Contract Within UK-China Business Summit
CHINA - JSR Genetics, the leading UK-based international pig genetics company, has signed a milestone contract for 1,100 animals with the Guangzhou Animal Husbandry Company in Beijing on 8 November 20...

Zhongpin's Lab Devoted to Meat Safety Research
CHINA - China's leading chilled meat producer, Zhongpin Food, announced that the Science & Technology Department of Henan province has given the go-ahead for the company's laboratory to gauge the safety...

Quality and Safety of Agricultural Products in 2009
CHINA - In order to implement the spirit of the 3rd Plenary Session of the 17th CCCPC and the No. 1 document of the Party Central Committee, China's Ministry of Agriculture strengthened the routine monitoring...

Chinese Research Wins APVS Award
BEIJING, CHINA - A team of researchers from the China Agricultural University in Beijing have won an award for their evaluation of the performance of the boar taint vaccine Improvac® (Pfizer Animal Health)...

Zhongpin Receives Government Cash Subsidies
CHINA - Zhongpin Inc. has reported that it has received two payments totaling RMB 21.4 million (about $3.1 million) in cash subsidies from the Chinese government.

15 Arrested for Selling Pigs Fed Banned Additives
CHINA - Prosecutors said yesterday that 15 people had been arrested in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, on charges of selling pigs that had been given fodder containing banned a...

Henan Imports Herd of US Breeding Pigs
CHINA - The central Chinese province of Henan, a leading farm production base, has imported 360 breeding pigs from the United States to improve the quality of pork, the provincial animal husbandry bureau...

14 Ill Over Pig Feed Additive Poisoning
CHINA - Fourteen people in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, were poisoned yesterday evening after eating pig organs that were suspected of containing an animal-feed additive.

Seven Suspects Detained Over Poisoned Pork
CHINA - The municipal public security bureau of Guangzhou yesterday claimed to have identified nine people allegedly responsible for the recent case of pig-feed poisoning, which has made about 70 people...

New Policy Issued to Prevent Hog Price Decline
CHINA - AgFeed Industries, Inc., the largest commercial hog producer and the largest premix feed company in China, today commented on a recently released Chinese central government administrative regulation...

Tainted Irish Pork Seized in Eastern China
CHINA - Chinese quarantine authorities in the eastern city of Nanjing have seized more than 23 tonnes of frozen Irish pork that was found to be contaminated with dioxin and ordered it be returned, state...

Pigs Illegally Injected with Water in Tianjin
CHINA - Food inspectors in north China have discovered that a city-backed pork products plant was injecting pigs with water to illegally increase their weight.

Dead, Diseased Pigs Sold for Food
CHINA - Six people have been detained in southern China's Guangdong Province for allegedly running a network that processed and sold meat from dead and diseased pigs.

China Stops Irish Pork Product Imports
CHINA - China's quality supervisor is suspending the import of Irish pork products and animal feed over concerns the food may be contaminated with a potentially harmful chemical.

Milk Crisis Spills Out on All Food Sectors
CHINA - The melamine milk scandal had devastated Chinese dairy exports, but now other food sectors are beginning to feel the aftershock.