The pork industry continues to prepare for the next foreign animal disease outbreak.
In his opening comments during a National Pork Board news conference at World Pork Expo Wednesday, NPB vice president of science and technology Dr. David Pyburn said he wanted to start with the bad news.
“At some point in time our industry is going to have a foreign animal disease. It will come out turn at some point.”
For as bio-secure as Pyburn says pig farmers are, he suggests no amount of prevention will be enough.
