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Meat may have contained human remains
'Can't rule out possibility' of human remains in meat processed at farm of B.C. serial killer

CANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER (CP) - Human remains may have been in meat processed for human consumption at the Pickton pig farm, B.C.'s provincial health officer confirmed today.
"What I know from the RCMP is we can't rule out the possibility of cross-contamination," Dr. Perry Kendall said in an interview with The Canadian Press.

When asked if cross-contamination meant human remains found their way into meat processed at the infamous farm, Kendall said:

"It's very disturbing to think about, but there's that possibility of some cross-contamination. But the degree of it or when or how much we really don't know.

"I think if we could rule it out, we definitely would like to."

Robert Pickton faces 15 counts of first-degree murder in the disappearance of women from Vancouver's seedy Downtown Eastside.

Police have said they have found human remains and other DNA samples at the farm Pickton owned with his brother and sister just east of Vancouver. However, Cpl. Cate Galliford, spokeswoman for the RCMP and Vancouver Police joint task force into the missing women case, refused to use the word remains when speaking of the potentially contaminated meat.

Instead, she said the meat may have been contaminated with human DNA.

Kendall has asked anyone who may still have frozen pork products from Pickton's farm to return them to police.

The latest news was yet another devastating blow for relatives of the victims.

Lynn Frey, who was told earlier this year that her daughter Marnie's DNA had been found at the farm, was appalled.

"It's disgusting," she said. "It's absolutely insane. How many people have eaten something from that farm?

"Even if you did get a pig from that farm seven years ago, you think it's going to still be in your freezer?"

And Frey added, all the police have indicated they've found of her daughter is DNA.

"Where the heck's the rest of her body?"

She also questioned why there hasn't been a thorough Canadian Food Inspection Agency investigation of the case.

Marc Richard, a spokesman for the agency, was caught off guard by questions about the possible contamination. He said he was told an announcement was planned for release Thursday.

He wouldn't comment on the case because it is part of a criminal investigation.

The news release said the RCMP approached the B.C. Centre for Disease Control to inquire about potential health risks for people who may have eaten pork processed or slaughtered at the farm, given the conditions they discovered at the site.

A formal investigation by Kendall, the centre and officials at Health Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency was launched last Friday.

Officials with the disease control centre said the risk to human health for those who ate the products is "extremely remote" because pork must always be well- cooked, a process that destroys most infectious agents.

However, Kendall said under the circumstances, he has an obligation to the public under the Health Act to ensure those products are not consumed.

Pickton, 54, is not expected to go to trial until late this year or early in 2005.

Police executed a raid on the Pickton farm Feb. 6, 2002.

More than 60 women from Vancouver's gritty Downtown Eastside have disappeared since the 1980s. Most were sex-trade workers and drug addicts.

Investigators wrapped up a mass excavation and search of the property just east of Vancouver last November.

The charges against Pickton so far are four more than the number admitted to by Canada's most notorious serial killer, Clifford Robert Olson.

Pickton was not associated with the B.C. Hog Marketing Commission and B.C. Pork Producers Association, said Clarence Jensen, a spokesman for the groups.

"None of the processors we sell farmers' hogs through have dealt with this individual," he said.

While Pickton may have bought pigs at auction, "we don't know what he did with it," Jensen said.

"Obviously they're trying to examine what they think is evidence and not giving a hoot about the industry."