The Swine Health Committee is responsible for identifying and prioritizing diseases that impact the swine industry (such as PRRS and PMWS), reviewing, approving and allocating check-off dollars for proposed research projects, determining outreach and educational priorities for producers and establishing positions on key swine health issues to represent the best interest of the pork industry. Current projects/programs are the PRRS Elimination Initiative, swine ID, biosecurity, disease surveillance, and emergency planning and preparedness.