In a bid to maintain export markets if a foreign animal disease (FAD) outbreak occurs in the U.S., pork producers support a national traceability standard that, if implemented, would require producers to collect additional movement data on their pigs and maintain a premise ID for their farm.

“The Iowa delegation supports the new rules,” said Iowa Pork Producers Association (IPPA) President Matt Gent. “We need this as an industry to have a standard to follow. Right now, we use multiple platforms to track this information, ...