The American Institute in Taiwan, the de facto embassy, defended US exports to the island as being “safe,” after politicians protested a decision to allow imports of pork containing a leanness-enhancing additive, ractopamine.
Ractopamine is a drug added into animal feed that some farmers give to pigs. It is banned in the European Union and China, but the American Institute claimed on Thursday that all US exports to the island and its other trade partners were safe and meet the same high standards that are also used in the States.
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