What is the National Trichinae Certification Program?
The National Trichinae Certification Program is a pre-harvest pork safety program that will provide documentation of swine management practices which minimize risk of exposure of swine to the zoonotic (animal to human transmission) parasite Trichinella spiralis. The program establishes a set of criteria that enable producers to market swine which are not considered a risk to human health due to exposure to this parasite.