The Canadian pork industry takes great pride in delivering farm-to-table Quality Assurance in every package of Canadian pork. The Verified Canadian Pork™ brand embodies the hard work, dedication, and commitment to quality that goes into producing Canadian pork. Canada is the only North American country to implement a mandatory national swine identification and traceability system. And like all Canadian pork, Verified Canadian Pork™ is raised without added growth hormones.
About the Canadian Pork Excellence platform
In order to ensure that on-farm programs continue to reflect the remarkable work of producers and meet the domestic and global consumer demand, Canadian producers and stakeholders follow PigSAFE and PigCARE. Both are integrated under the Canadian Pork Excellence platform.
Canadian Pork Excellence is the national platform that covers the three on-farm programs: Traceability, Food Safety and Animal Care.
Food Safety component – the new name for the updated Canadian Quality Assurance (CQA) program. It includes biosecurity.
Animal Care component – The new name for the updated Animal Care Assessment (ACA) program. It reflects the introduction of the 2014 Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of pigs.
Traceability component – It meets federal legislation
