Implementing a quality control program doesn’t necessarily mean extra tasks for chicken producers, but it will require them to take notes on what they’re already doing.
But New Bothwell, Man., producer Jake Wiebe said it’s worth it.
“If it gives people the sense of satisfaction to know these things are taken care of, I have no problem with it,” he said during the Manitoba Chicken Board’s annual meeting March 14.
The HACCP, or Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points program, is expected to be adopted by all chicken producers across Canada by 1999.
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Waldie Klassen, head of the province’s chicken board, said Manitoba is one of five provinces taking part in pilot projects to eventually ease in the program.
“A lot of the farmers were doing what’s in the HACCP program,” said Klassen. “It will just mean keeping records of what we do.”
Wiebe, as one of six Manitoba chicken producers taking part in the project, said quality control has always been part of producers’ daily routine.
“Most of what we saw was just common sense stuff that we do every day,” he said, such as checking water quality, feed quality and feed withdrawal.
“It’s stuff we wouldn’t have maybe thought about making a note of before because we walk by and check these things.”
