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Human remains may be in Canadian meat
3/11/2004

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Officials are investigating whether meat processed at a farm owned by a suspected serial killer might have been contaminated by human remains, authorities said Wednesday.

Robert William Pickton, 54, was arrested in February 2002 and has been charged with 15 counts of murder for killings spanning 20 years.

The remains of 22 women have been found at Pickton's pig farm east of Vancouver, police investigators said. In all, Pickton is suspected in 31 killings, authorities said.

None of the pork from Pickton's farm was sold in stores. But Dr. Perry Kendall, the health officer for British Columbia, said that Pickton often gave friends frozen pork products.