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Mar 20, 2013 | 11:09 pm

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Originally Posted by eturowski

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.

Thanks for that link; I was really curious and not enough time on my hands to do the digging.

And I agree with you - ag is pretty much all we've got left these days.

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