The new users will exchange complex, FDA-required Key Data Elements for each Critical Tracking Event in the supply chain, ensuring compliance ahead of the January 2026 deadline.
Under the Livestock Mandatory Reporting Program, USDA currently publishes non-carcass merit premiums paid for ACL-compliant hogs on the Non-Carcass Merit Premium report.
This addition will provide pork industry stakeholders with the information necessary to make informed production and marketing decisions relating to ACL-compliant hogs.
The Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression Act would prohibits state and local governments from imposing conditions on the preharvest raising of animals in another state.
Following the Supreme Court upholding California’s Proposition 12, which sought to limit how livestock intended for food to be sold in California could be raised, Congress introduced new legislation to limit the ability of states to regulate food products nationwide.
New platform offers a 'BioBarrier' against Salmonella through surveillance systems, big data analytics for improved poultry productivity, and compliance.