date:Feb 09, 2013
og, in an interview with Interfax Thursday.
Onishchenko also pointed out that two U.S. advocacy groups, the Center for Food Safety and the Animal Legal Defense Fund, recently petitioned the FDA to re-evaluate the drugs implications for human health and animal welfare.
Outside of Russia, China and the EU, which together produce and consume the vast majority of the worlds pork, have been the most outspoken opponents of ractopamine use in meat production.
China has expressed concerns about the h