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The world's most expensive ham went on sale yesterday – complete with its own DNA certificate as proof of authenticity.

The leg of Iberico ham, which weighs 7 kilograms and costs 1,800, is on sale at the food hall in Selfridges in London.

Just 50 pigs are selected by pig farmer and ham expert Manuel Maldonad to roam over fields in western Spain feeding on a diet of acorns and roots that help give the ham its special flavour.

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After the pigs are slaughtered, the ham is salted and cured for three years before going on sale in hand-made wooden boxes wrapped in aprons made by one of Spain’s most exclusive tailors.

A Selfridges spokesman said the quality made it excellent value.

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