Pigs at a second farm in Belgium have tested positive for the banned growth hormone MPA, the country’s food safety agency AFSCA revealed yesterday [Monday].
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The AFSCA placed eight pig farms in Belgium under quarantine earlier this month while it sought to establish whether they had imported pigs or pig feed contaminated with MPA from the Netherlands.
On Sunday, it revealed that traces of the hormone had been discovered in 4,000 imported pigs at a farm in Limburg, in northeast Belgium. It is currently considering whether to insist that the animals are destroyed.
No more details are currently available on the latest affected farm, but it is believed that the MPA was detected in the pigs’ excrement.
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