PQA Plus Launched

摘要

New quality assurancelanimal well-being certification program rolled out for producers of all sizes. Members of the National Pork Board and this year's class of the Pork Leadership Academy were the first pork producers trained on the newly introducedPork Quality Assurance Plus (PQA Plus) program. The June 6 training officially launched PQA Plus, a program that incorporates an animal well-being component into the popular Pork Quality Assurance (PQA Level III) program, introduced in 1989. By marryingthe Pork Checkoff's PQA III with Swine Welfare Assurance Program (SWAP), the industry now has what NationalPork Board President Wayne Peugh describes as "a continuous improvement system focused on producer education, certification and premises assessment."