Source: Dan Flynn, FOOD SAFETY NEWS, 10/14/19


Mega-producer JBS USA has banned the use of ractopamine in the hogs it purchases because it sees a trade opportunity with China where the growth drug remains prohibited. JBS, owned by JBS S.A. based in Brazil, hopes to help China fill a huge gap created by the African swine disease by supplying it with ractopamine-free pork. The Greeley, CO-based port producer, which stopped using the growth drug on its own in August 2018, has now announced it won’t buy hogs from any farms that use ractopamine.

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