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Verified Canadian Pork™<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Canadian pork industry takes great pride in delivering farm-to-table Quality Assurance in every package of Canadian pork. The Verified Canadian Pork™ brand embodies the hard work, dedication, and commitment to quality that goes into producing Canadian pork. Canada is the only North American country to implement a mandatory national swine identification and traceability system. And like all Canadian pork, Verified Canadian Pork™ is raised without added growth hormones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Canadian Pork Excellence platform<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In order to ensure that on-farm programs continue to reflect the remarkable work of producers and meet the domestic and global consumer demand, Canadian producers and stakeholders follow PigSAFE <\/strong>and PigCARE<\/strong>. Both are integrated under the Canadian Pork Excellence platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canadian Pork Excellence is the national platform that covers the three on-farm programs: Traceability<\/em>, Food Safety <\/em>and Animal Care<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Food Safety<\/strong> component – the new name for the updated Canadian Quality Assurance (CQA) program. It includes biosecurity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Animal Care<\/strong> component \u2013 The new name for the updated Animal Care Assessment (ACA) program. It reflects the introduction of the 2014 Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of pigs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Traceability<\/strong> component \u2013 It meets federal legislation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Canadian pork industry takes great pride in delivering farm-to-table Quality Assurance in every package of Canadian pork. The Verified Canadian Pork™ brand embodies the hard work, dedication, and commitment to quality that goes into producing Canadian pork. Canada is the only North American country to implement a mandatory national swine identification and traceability system. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-808","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpork.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpork.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpork.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpork.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpork.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/bcpork.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1082,"href":"https:\/\/bcpork.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/808\/revisions\/1082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpork.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}