Taiwan probes meat smuggling from China to avoid African swine fever

A special inter-ministerial operation has been launched to investigate the smuggling of meat products from China, where a highly contagious and deadly virus that causes African swine fever (ASF) is spreading through hog farms, according to the Cabinet-level Council of Agriculture (COA) on Friday.

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