Pigs and food safety

The novel H1N1 virus is a type of swine influenza, derived originally from a strain that lived in pigs and this origin gave rise to the common name of "swine flu", largely used today by mass media. Despite this origin, however, the current strain is transmitted between people and not from swine.[33] The U.S. agriculture secretary has made it clear that despite its common name, "swine flu," there is no risk in eating cooked pork products and the virus has not been found in American hogs