Canadian pork producers have a new plan available to help them with
The Canadian Pork Council was involved on a team that included the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, provincial pork organizations, swine veterinarians and researchers, to come up with a biosecurity guideline and benchmark.
Ravneet Kaur, director of national animal health and policy with the Canadian Pork Council, outlined the initiative during Saskatchewan Pork Industry Symposium 2026 in Saskatoon.
She said African swine fever has been a major focus of the industry’s preparedness efforts over the past eight years. but work is also expanding to include foot-and-mouth disease and highly pathogenic avian influenza.
Kaur identified four central areas of work: biosecurity and prevention, planning and preparedness, business continuity, and communications.
“The common thread between all of this is the coordination that we do as an industry, with governments, with other partners,” she told Farmscape.
The voluntary resource gives producers a framework for reviewing biosecurity alongside their veterinarians and industry organizations.
