On Saturday morning cafes ooze the odour of fried crisp bacon.
Under proposed food law changes in Australia, pork products containing traces of rat poison could be sold legally.
"The discovery of rat bait residues in pig livers at some farms has prompted the nation’s food authority to admit chemicals used to control vermin may “inadvertently” spread to the food chain. Tests at piggeries in January found unharmful traces of coumatetrayl or warfarin at three farms. Federal Department of Agriculture coordinated tests at 23 sites in January uncovered “very low” levels of coumatetralyl in slaughtered pig livers at a Victorian and NSW piggery. Warfarin traces were detected at a South Australian piggery. The chemicals kill rodents through internal bleeding. Pigs potentially ingest them by eating feed contaminated by treated rats." (source)
Update:
Maybe it is good that nearly three quarters of bacon sold in Australia is made from imported pork meat?
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Gauguin, Paul, The ham, 1889
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