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Pork Checkoff Research

Research is at the heart of the National Pork Board’s mission and is funded by your Pork Checkoff dollars. Research is administered in all areas of pork production, processing, and human nutrition to develop a higher quality and more profitable product in the competitive meat protein market.

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Pork Quality
Consumer Valuation of Pork Chop Quality Information
Pork quality variation has been well documented and overall eating quality of fresh unenhanced pork chops has been linked to product color and marbling. The National Pork Board is working with USDA...
Evaluation of the risk of a feed mill being contaminated with PEDv or PDCov
Twenty-four feed mills from various regions (Eastern, Midwest, Western, and Northern Midwest) in the US were evaluated in this study to assess the risk of different areas within a mill to test...
Animal Well-being
Evaluation of rate of administration of various gas mixtures using the Smart Box euthanasia device as a humane and effective method of piglet euthanasia
The objectives of this project were to evaluate the effectiveness and quality of gas euthanasia applied to suckling and nursery piglets at...
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