The U.S. Meat Export Federation said it will ask China, the third-biggest buyer of American pork, to delay a new layer documentation that shipments are free of the additive ractopamine.
The quarantine service sent a letter to U.S. officials in Beijing this week stating that U.S. pork imports need further paper work certifying they are free of the additive, which is used to make meat leaner, Joel Haggard, the group’s Asia-Pacific vice president, said by telephone today. With some consignments on their way, the March 1 deadline for changes can’t be met and should be rolled back, he said.
China, the world’s largest consumer of pork, already bans ractopamine and there have been no problems reported with U.S. in recent months, Haggard said.
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William Bi, Bloomberg News via CHINA US Focus http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChinaUsFocus/~3/-PZX6So0rlM/
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