Pork Producers Pass Resolution Supporting Traceability

March 27, 2013 — 

Pork producers representing the National Pork Board and the National Pork Producers Council recently approved similar resolutions calling on packers to begin requiring, as a condition of sale, all market breeding swine to be individually identified with USDA’s approved official premises identification number (PIN) tag bearing the standardized Premises Identification Number traceable to the sending premises. The AASV also supported this effort. The use of official PIN tags will allow producers a mechanism to distinguish their market breeding swine within a comingled group in market channels, thereby enhancing pre-market traceability.