Germany, for which China is a key pork market, has confirmed a case of the disease that’s caused South Korea and Japan to suspend purchases
Kuala Lumpur/Beijing — Nervousness is mounting over whether top pork consumer China will halt imports of the meat from Europe’s biggest producer on concerns about a pig-killing disease.
A Chinese import ban on German suppliers or specific areas where the disease was found is inevitable, said Ma Chuang, deputy secretary-general at the Chinese Association of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine. China, the world’s top hog producer, has also been battling swine fever at its own farms since first reporting an outbreak in 2018. That pushed the nation into a supply shortage after the disease slashed herds by about a half, driving up the country’s pork prices and meat imports to record highs.
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