Smithfield Foods

1. Smithfield Foods Bioscience Team is Ready to Enter Pork Organs Transplant Industry Whenever we talk about leading suppliers of ham, bacon, pork chops, hot dogs and sausages for dry, smoked and breakfast items or supplier for pharmaceutical companies, the first name that strikes in the mind is Smithfield Foods. Moreover, the company has supplied Heparin i.e. a molecule extracted from the guts of a pig. Heparin supplied by Smithfield Foods Group acts as a crucial ingredient in varieties of blood-thinning drugs. Now, the company has setup its own bioscience department to expand roles to supply various parts or organs of pigs for medical applications with the objective to sell pig organs for their transplantations in humans. Journey of the Company from Food Supplier to Heparin Supplier Furthermore, Courtney Stanton, the Vice President of Bioscience department in Smithfield has recently said that its company is hoping to use specific parts of pigs, especially the hearts to develop essential organs to save the life of human beings rather than letting them to go as waste products. According to Stanton and her team members, both meat and organs (heart) come from pig, because of which worldwide largest pork processor may also act as a leading heparin supplier in various regions of the United States. Considering this fact, a large number of experts working in Smithfield Foods have developed interest in an innovative concept of organ transplantations from pig to humans.

2. Along with this, Courtney Stanton shared opinion that as a leading food company in US it would be the prime responsibility of Smithfield Group to make sure about using almost every part of an animal (pig/hog) in some productive ways and thereby, reduce waste. There are a large numbers of parts, which cannot be used in making sausages or any other pork or ham dishes. Positively, the team has succeeded to found valuable utilization of such parts to supply to the medical community. Overview of Heparin Smithfield Foods bioscience team has put its efforts to produce Heparin from intestinal membrane of hogs/pigs to supply to a large number of healthcare companies. Heparin refers to a blood thinner to prevent blood-clotting problems during surgical procedures. Scope of Other Pork Byproducts in Medical and Biomedical Industry Until now, a large number of pork byproducts to use the terms of industry for various non- meat bits have turned up already in varieties of medical devices and drugs to diagnose and cure human beings. Other than heparin, heart valves, hormonal glands and skin are a few common byproducts of pork, which have found wide applications in the entire biomedical industry. Pigs possess similarity in genetics and size to humans, because of which factory farming is putting its best possible effort to use special breeds of pigs and making them available widely. Success Probability of Smithfield in the Pig Organs Transplant Sector Transplantation of organs from pigs to humans on a routine basis is until now far away many years. However, with the latest scientific advancements and overcoming of a few common technical breakthroughs, biomedical industry may successfully break down barriers to provide readily supply of various hog replacement organs to injured and sick people. Therefore, in the coming years, Smithfield Group has to undergo detailed research work on pig’s organs to grab its leading position as a supplier of pork organs transplants to humans.