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A pilot project designed to allow pork producers in Western Canada to certify that their herds are free of PRRS has been expanded to include Ontario and Quebec.
The Western Canada PRRS-Free Herd Certification Pilot Project, an initiative of the Canadian Swine Health Board, is being administered by the Saskatchewan Pork Development Board and provides a protocol under which suppliers of pigs or semen are able to certify their stock is free of a specific disease, in this case Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome.
Originally it was meant to be for western Canadian farms. Of those farms they had to be a CQA farm, they had to have a vet who was a member of the Canadian Association of Swine Veterinarians and they had to be PRRS free. They can not have ELISA positive pigs in their herd. If they had PRRS and they've recently eradicated PRRS but they still had some pigs that had antibodies to PRRS or had been vaccinated for PRRS they couldn't participate so they had to be completely free of PRRS.
Friday November 25, 2011/ Farmscape/ Canada.
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