Lamphun free of tainted pork

The inspections followed last month’s death of a student who reportedly ate contaminated pork from Lamphun at a barbecue restaurant in Chiang Mai.
The office responded by banning animal transport, burying sick pigs within a five-kilometre radius, temporarily closing slaughterhouses and conducting a public-awareness campaign about the issue.
The Lamphun Livestock Development Office announced yesterday that it found no pork containing streptococcus group B bacteria in inspections in Ban Tha Pla Duk village in Mae Tha district and Ban Pa Teung Ngam in Muang district.