Pork: Are trichinosis regulations too stringent?

With this parasitic disease practically non-existent in Canada, the pork industry believes that current food safety regulations and cooking temperature recommendations are unnecessarily restrictive

by DON STONEMAN

Trichinosis, a parasitic disease, has been virtually wiped out by the nearly universal use of confinement feeding and by stringent regulation of garbage feeding of pigs. Is it still causing grief for the pork industry because of overly tough restaurant and food service cooking regulations?

Better Farming - June/July 2010