Shuanghui’s US acquisition highlights pork war

A food additive that has been the source of scandals in China is widely used by US pork producers such as Smithfield.
<div style="text-align: left;"> US pigs are bigger, leaner and cheaper to produce than their Chinese cousins </div>
<div style="text-align: left;"> US pigs are bigger, leaner and cheaper to produce than their Chinese cousins </div>
June 05, 2013

Shuanghui International’s $7.1 billion deal to buy Smithfield Foods in the US has been widely billed as a response to China’s repeated food scares, but American companies actually have to follow higher standards to be able to export pork to the mainland.

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