Hong Kong food safety officials were in talks with the pork industry on Thursday night over segregating local and mainland Chinese pigs during slaughter, because of fears of an outbreak of African swine fever, which had already spread to neighbouring Guangdong province.
But the Centre for Food Safety said the separate ownership and operation of the city’s two main abattoirs made separation difficult. Mainland and local pigs are processed both at the Sheung Shui slaughterhouse, which is...
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