Ontario Pork funding was matched by CanAdapt. Agricultural Publishing Company Limited . Federally inspected packing plants are asking that farms supplying pigs to their plants be CQA validated by the end of 1999. Producers are scrambling to attend information meetings, obtain producer manuals, and review procedures with vets and feed suppliers at the farm. The manual's procedures must be implemented correctly at the farm for three months in order to achieve a successful audit by an approved validator.
Producers are responsible for recertification every three years.
Most swine veterinarians in the province are certified validators. They will get markets at Canada's expense if we don't follow suit. It makes good business sense at the farm. Let's focus on the last statement. I had to think.