Originally Posted by
Pup7
Skimming the USCIS link I posted earlier, for whatever reasons, it seems as though pork is a specific problem. I wonder if there's a disease possibly present in foreign pork (cured or not) that could be harmful to our porcine population (though if that were the case, you'd think the USDA would ban it as well).
One of the problems is
swine fever, a porcine virus which persists for months in cured, uncooked meats (i.e., salami).
I am glad our CBP does a good job of excluding food products like this. Agriculture is one of the few truly "home-grown" industries left in the US.