Will We allow China to control the largest Pork processor...

But some politicians expressed concerns about the takeover of the company, especially given China's huge demand for pork imports and rising prices in the US market, as well as concerns over whether the Chinese company would adhere to adequate sanitary standards.

Shuanghui has insisted it will keep the company's US operations and brands, and would uphold safety standards.

"This transaction will create a leading global animal protein enterprise," Shuanghui chief executive Zhijun Yang in the statement Friday.

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And also ship Poultry there to be processed and shipped back...

While the logistics are hard to imagine-if we can't safely leave chicken out for the length of a family picnic, how can it be shipped halfway around the world and back with no ill effects?-the USDA is doing its best to reassure both chicken farmers and consumers that the process is 100-percent safe.

"The Food Safety and Inspection Service's number-one priority is always food safety," Perkins says. In the official memo, the FSIS says that "all outstanding issues have been resolved"-a pretty big promise considering that in the past year alone China has made news for passing off rat meat as mutton, selling sausages filled with maggots, inexplicably finding thousands of dead pigs floating in the waters of Shanghai, and even having an outbreak of the H7N9 bird flu in live poultry.

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