date:Jul 07, 2012
topamine, most recently in 2010 based on data from China.
Despite those findings and the support of the US, Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Mexico and countries outside of Europe, the standard again was opposed for non-scientific reasons outside the scope of the Codex by the European Union and Russia, NPPC charged. The EU, China, Taiwan and Thailand currently ban imports of pork from pigs fed ractopamine.
US pork producers are very disappointed with the continued opposition to ractopamine for reas