By Amanda Brodhagen, Farms.com
Over the past year, Canadian pork producers have been gearing up to implement a new traceability system known as PigTrace Canada. The program becomes mandatory effective on Canada Day, July 1st.
Canada’s Health of Animals Regulations was recently amended to bring into law the requirement for swine traceability, a condition for all pig farms nationwide. The program will collect and store information about the movement of hogs.
The PigTrace system will accumulate information about the local farm and the destination of a truck load of hogs, licence plate information of the truck or trailer transporting pigs, and information about the number of livestock on a load. The new program aims to track hogs along the distributing chain, which then allows government officials to be able to deal with problems quickly if they should arise.