National Pork Board Meets This Week  Task force recommends
consolidating some committees.  Published on: Nov 16, 2010  The
National Pork Board will met this week, beginning Tuesday, to
focus on streamlining the organization's producer-led committee
structure. The board's three day meeting will be held in Des
Moines, Iowa. On Wednesday, the board will receive a report from
a task force it appointed last spring to study its committee
structure. The National Pork Board now has 11 pork producer-led
committees that it relies on for guidance on issues ranging from
product marketing to the environment to animal health and food
safety.  The task force will recommend that the board trim the
number of committees to eight by combining two committees that
focus on producer services, education and communications and two
others that focus on nutrition and pork safety. It also is
recommending that a committee focused on niche marketing become
a subcommittee of the merged producer group and that the board
assure that produce