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Taiwan says it found ASF in WH Group sausage

Chinese pork processor WH Group is investigating a claim by the Taiwan government that a sausage made by the company tested positive for African swine fever after it was brought there by a traveler.

Close-up of a red pushpin in a map of Taipei, Taiwan.
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Chinese pork processor WH Group is investigating a claim by the Taiwan government that a sausage made by the company tested positive for African swine fever after it was brought there by a traveler.

Taiwan’s Council of Agriculture said it found a gene that was 100 percent similar to the African swine fever that has spread across China in recent months in a Shuanghui Crispy Sausage made by WH Group subsidiary Henan Shuanghui Investment and Development. The sausage was one of 306 meat products smuggled into Taiwan between August and October. WH Group said it has not found the disease in any of its products sold on China’s mainland.

South Korea and Japan have also reported finding the disease in processed meat products from China.