date:Mar 19, 2014
US pork processor Smithfield Foods has halted hog slaughter operations at its pork processing facility in Tar Heel, North Carolina, over Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus (PEDv).
The Tar Heel site has shortened the slaughter operations schedule this week to four days, reported Reuters citing sources familiar with the matter.
It is considered as the company's largest pork processing plant with an estimated slaughter capacity of around 34,000 hogs a day.
The company stated that it does not commen