date:Nov 28, 2012
s Commission standard (10 ppb).
The drug, marketed to pork producers as Paylean, has been at the heart of recent trade controversies with the European Union, Taiwan and China, which each ban the drug and ask that U.S. meat imports are from pigs not fed ractopamine.
Citing incomplete safety data, Consumers Union, the policy and advocacy arm of Consumer Reports, has pressed for a ban on the drug.
A report published by nbcnews.com last year found that ractopamine had sparked more adverse drug ex