A new international guideline for establishing negligible risk for Trichinae in swine has been finalized by the United Nation’s Codex Commission. National Pork Producer Council’s, Dave Warner says having the food safety standard body issue the guideline means countries will be able to export pork more easily with less regulatory hurdles.
Warner says this will be helpful for U.S. producers exporting their product to international customers, as the disease has only shown up in 1 of every 300 million pigs since it’s in the negligible risk category.
Warner says prior to this, several countries had been requiring testing be done for pork exported to them before it would be allowed in. He says that constituted a non tariff trade barrier which the U.S. guidance should solve.
