We report here on a certification pilot using an on-farm auditing system to document good production practices (GPPs) for swine relative to the risk of exposure to trichinae. The trichinae certification mechanism will establish a process for ensuringthe safety of animal-derived food products from the farm through slaughter. Control of Trichinella infection in pork has traditionally been accomplished by inspection of individual carcasses at slaughter or by post-slaughter processing to inactivate parasites. Declines in prevalence of this parasite in U.S. domestic swine during the last twenty to thirty years coupled with improvements in pork production offer the opportunity to document pork safety at the farm level.
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