USMEF says China still needs US pork
07/09/2009
The chairman of the US Meat Export Federation (USMEF), Jon Caspers, has said that he thinks China still offers good potential for pork exporters from the US, in spite of advances in the Chinese domestic pork industry.
Speaking at the fifth International Meat Secretariat world conference in Qingdao on September 3, Mr Caspers said he was impressed with the progress China’s pork industry has made in recent years, but that he does not believe the country can become self-sufficient in pork in the near future. Demand among Chinese consumers is likely to remain too high for Chinese producers to fulfil.
This is in spite of the fact that nearly two-thirds of China’s consumers stopped eating pork in the early stages of the H1N1 influenza outbreak this year, and more than one in five consumers in the world’s largest pork market still believe that eating pork can result in catching the flu virus, according to a survey of 1,200 Chinese consumers, commissioned by USMEF.
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