Canadian Pork Council is hoping new federal regulations that will clear the way for mandatory reporting of swine movement within Canada can be in place by early 2011.

PigTrace, the National Swine Traceability Programme was among the topics discussed Tuesday (Jun 8) in Winnipeg as part of the Canadian Institute of Food Science and Technology and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada biennial joint conference.

For any movement of live hogs both the sender and receiver will be required to report within 48 hours the date, time and location of loading, the destination and number of animals and the license plate number of the truck.

Canadian Pork Council national traceability programme manager Jeff Clark said the hope is to have draft federal regulations finalised by the end of the year.

Tools are now being developed that will make it easier for producers to report traceability information, he added.