The pork industry will be ushering in the new PigCare and PigSafe programs in the new year.

Mark Fynn with Manitoba Pork spoke about the issue last week at the group's fall meetings.

"With the launch that's happening January, we're going to start off with training of the assessors or validators that are going on-farm and that's going to follow up with producer training at that point to get them familiar with the new programs and what the new expectations are," he commented.

PigCare (former ACA program) and PigSafe (former CQA program) are part of the Canadian Pork Excellence program, along with PigTrace.