The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) today applauded U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack and the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) for heeding its call to extend the New Swine Inspection System (NSIS) line speed trial.
“Amidst a historically dire pork market, we thank Secretary Vilsack for his actions to preserve harvest capacity, which provides market power to producers when selling hogs,” said NPPC President and Missouri pork producer Scott Hays. “Without the extension, pork producers would incur additional losses of nearly $10/head in Q1 and Q2 2024.”
USDA’s plan includes a 90-day extension to allow a team of experts to design a study to collect worker safety data. NPPC is confident the study will yield consistent, positive findings, paving the way to establishing NSIS as a permanent program.
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