The single case of trichinosis that turned up in official
data turns out to have been a Mennonite child near Chesley who ate pork from a
pig slaughtered on the farm.
Why trichinosis turned up in Ontario was a bit of a mystery
at the time since it’s believed that it has been wiped out as a threat to
health.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency hasn’t found any trichinosis in
Canadian pork for a long time.
It tests about 18,000 hogs at packing plants every year and every three
to five years tests about 16,000 sows as part of its surveillance program.
Farmers are prohibited from feeding meat and meat byproducts to swine.
The Bruce County case happened in January , says Dr. Hazel Lynn,
medical health officer for Grey and Bruce counties.
None of the pork was sold to others, she says.
