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Chinese workers have fished more than 12,000 dead pigs out of a main waterway in the cities of Shanghai and Jiaxing over the week, in a scandal that has spotlighted China's troubles with food safety, according to officials.
The South China Morning Post newspaper quoted government sources as saying on Sunday that nearly 9,000 swine carcasses were found in a river in Shanghai, and 3,600 others in Jiaxing, with the search continuing in both cities.
Authorities have also found traces of a common pig virus in some of the animals floating in the Huangpu River this week.
"Shanghai's animal control authority found porcine circovirus, a common disease among hogs that was not known to infect humans, in 13 of 20 samples of internal organs taken from dead pigs retrieved from the Huangpu," the newspaper quoted Ministry of Agricultural as saying.
The swine effluent discovered flowing down the Huangpu river - which supplies a fifth of the commercial hub's drinking water - has added the country's most popular meat to a growing list of food items rocked by scandal.
Authorities also said that after intensified checks they have not found any substandard pork products on the market and were closely monitoring water quality.
Over 12,000 dead pigs fished out in China
Worries mount over the water supply as more bodies floated into Shanghai’s main river.
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