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Public slaughterhouse to reopen as Hong Kong lawmaker calls for private facility to lose its licence over response to African swine fever outbreak

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Pig farmers and lawmakers have criticised Hong Kong’s only private abattoir for suspending operations without good reason, as one politician urged the government to revoke its licence.Helena Wong Pik-wan, a member of the Legislative Council’s panel on food safety and environmental hygiene, said on Sunday that the Tsuen Wan slaughterhouse had failed in its role as a backup to the government’s facility in Sheung Shui, which was closed for a week after an outbreak of African swine fever in the…

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