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- Ractopamine is a livestock feed additive that increases efficiency but China, Russia, Taiwan, and the EU have restricted imports of meat from animals fed ractopamine. - Banning ractopamine use would increase costs for US farmers by $6 per hog and require feeding 91 million additional bushels of corn to cattle and hogs. - Export markets alone cannot compensate for the lost value of ractopamine, and a ban could reduce US pork production and sales by $508 million unless animals are fed longer to reach the

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jaherrerar

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