Recent scares of diseases such as BSE, Salmonella, E. coli, etc. have led to a consumer need for quality control. HACCP and HACCP-type concepts have been developed in order to regulate quality control.

Pre-harvest food safety is the series of steps that need to be taken at the farm level that aim at preventing and/or minimizing the amount of food-borne health risks to humans carried into the food chain via animals and animal products. In the case of pigs, these a