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Article: Hogs that ate tainted feed to be euthanized: 6,000 pigs banned from pork supply.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- April 27, 2007
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Byline: Mary Ann Fergus
Apr. 27--Federal officials alerted authorities in seven states Thursday that swine fed tainted pet food will not be approved to enter the human food supply.
Officials at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration expect that approximately 6,000 hogs, now under quarantine, will be euthanized even as they announced that the likelihood of illness after eating pork from the animals is very low. The affected hogs are in California, North Carolina, South Carolina, New York, Kansas, Oklahoma and Utah.
Last weekend, the California Department of Food and Agriculture traced shipments of hogs that may ...