California’s Department of Food and Agriculture has finalized its Proposition 12 implementation rules, three years after the original statutory deadline.
“This delay unnecessarily exacerbated pork supply chain disruptions and now creates significant concerns for farmers that these arbitrary regulations put the nation’s pig herd at risk of disease,” said Terry Wolters, National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) president, in a statement.
“Any farmers raising pigs that provide pork products to the California market must register and will be required to have California agents inspect their farms, which will create serious biosecurity threats across the country.”
The Supreme Court will hear arguments from NPPC and the American Farm Bureau Federation on Oct. 11 against the proposition, which the groups argue is a violation of the Constitution’s interstate commerce clause.
To view the rules in their entirety, click here.
