Chinese authorities officially informed Romania of its approval of Smithfield for frozen meat exports.
Chinese group WH, the world’s largest pork producer and processor, bought U.S. Smithfield Foods in 2013.
Smithfield has a slaughterhouse in Timisoara, one of the largest in Europe, which produces around 30% of pork carcasses in Romania and has a daily slaughtering capacity of 3,500 pigs.