Pig industry moves to red alert

“A carelessly discarded ham sandwich is all it takes, or someone breaking the law and feeding kitchen leftovers to pigs,” said NPA chairman Richard Longthorp.

The British pig industry is on red alert, in a bid to prevent an outstandingly virulent pig disease from entering the country. Until more is known about transmission routes of porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus, the industry is focusing in particular on a specialist feed ingredient for young pigs—spray-dried porcine plasma.

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