FOOD SAFETY

Your family trusts us to provide safe, healthy food products so we make it our priority to do everything we can to produce consistently safe food. After all, the food we produce is going to our tables, as well as yours.

Antibiotic Usage Policy

Compliance with applicable laws, regulations and other requirements to which Murphy-Brown subscribes is the responsibility of every Murphy-Brown associate. The antibiotic usage policy refers to all employees responsible for dispensing, delivering and administering antibiotics.

Murphy-Brown’s antibiotic usage policy calls for the following:

• The responsible use of therapeutic antibiotics for the specific purpose of treating animals with disease or illness
• The responsible use of preventative antibiotics with proper diagnostic confirmation to help prevent the spread or onset of a disease or illness
• Adherence to all applicable laws including the Food and Drug Administration’s Animal Medicinal Drug Use Clarification Act regarding any extra-label drug use

• No routine administration of antibiotics used in human medicine to healthy animals. For purposes of this policy, “routine”; means consistent use of an antibiotic in the context of an individual animal over its entire life.
• Strict or extended adherence to all antibiotic withdrawal timelines established by the FDA and the Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank
• No consistent use of feed-grade antimicrobials of human health significance over the life of a healthy animal. Use of particular antimicrobials as additives in feeds will be reviewed at least quarterly by a veterinarian and will be adjusted as appropriate, depending on disease prevention and control needs.
• Antibiotics used and antibiotic administration practices are reviewed by licensed professional veterinarians

Adherence to the principles of this policy is a responsibility and requirement of those who interact with the animals owned or managed by Murphy-Brown. Improper acquisition or usage of antibiotics will result in a minimum of a final written warning. Willful neglect or abuse of animals will not be tolerated and will result in immediate disciplinary action up to and including termination or prosecution.

Traceability

One of the major ways we work to protect consumer health and safety is through the traceability of our animals. Traceability is important should we encounter situations where we need to trace the origin of any of the pork products we produce back to the farm of origin.

Working together with Smithfield Foods, our parent company, it is our goal to be able to assure that every animal from a Murphy-Brown farm:

• Can be traced back to the animal’s farm of origin
• Is raised where management systems address health, welfare and proper use of health products
• Came from suppliers that are certified according to Pork Quality Assurance®-Plus (PQA Plus®) program developed by the National Pork Board
• Was transported by drivers certified under the National Pork Board’s Transport Quality Assurance (TQA) program
• Came from a facility that maintains a robust environmental management system