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Shuanghui back on shelves after pork scandal

(chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2011-04-08 15:50

A Shuanghui area manager in Chongqing eats the company's sausage product at a supermarket, in an effort to convince customers of its quality, April 6, 2011. [Photo / Agencies]

Products from Shuanghui Group, China's largest meat processor, went back on sale in Chongqing.

More than 30 kinds of the company's products were taken off shelves in March, after an illegal additive was found in meat products in an affiliate of the company.

The Henan-based Jiyuan Shuanghui Food Co Ltd was accused of purchasing pigs fed with clenbuterol, an illegal addictive also described as "lean meat powder". The banned supplement, which is often used to produce leaner meat, can cause heart palpitations and dizziness in humans.