Officers have detained 22 people in connection with the use of illegal additives fed to pigs to produce lean meat
Chinese authorities have arrested at least 22 people in connection with the use of illegal additives fed to pigs.
Fourteen people, including pig farmers, were detained in Henan province, one of the country's major breeding areas, after the animals tested positive for additives poisonous to humans.
Police have detainedheld eight others in Nanjing city, where a slaughterhouse was found to have handled tainted meat.
State television this week named Henan Shuanghui Investment & Development, the country's top meat processor, as one of the main companies that had sold the contaminated pork.
Shuanghui, which counts Goldman Sachs among its investors, has shut the processor affected by the contamination.
The government is investigating more than 1,300 pig farms and 130 feed and veterinary drug stores, Xinhua said, and at least six officials and workers at local animal quarantine stations have been fired or suspended from work.
The pigs were fed the additives ? described by state media as either ractopamine and/or clenbuterol ? to produce lean meat. Lean meat sells for a premium in China, the world's largest producer and consumer of pork.China is no stranger to food safety scares despite repeated government campaigns to crack down on the problem.
In 2008, at least six children died and nearly 300,000 fell ill from drinking powdered milk laced with melamine, an industrial compound added to fool inspectors by giving misleadingly high results in protein tests.
Last month, state media reported some manufacturers had added a leather powder to dairy products in an effort to cheat protein-content checks.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/17/china-pig-farmers-arrested
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