For the Canadian Pork Council, the average cost per producer for just the audit is probably about $500 or $600 per producer per year. That doesn't include the cost of implementation, or the timing commitment that's put into developing the protocols and maintaining the records, but just the audit. We have about 7,000 producers. So if we looked at the lower end of that, we're looking at $3.5 million per year in audit costs. And the operation of the program itself, at the national office and with our provincial board's contribution to that, is about $1 million on the administrative side.
On June 1st, 2009. See this statement in context.