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MOFGApedia Editor on December 01, 2011
The USDA already has traceability requirements as part of existing animal disease control programs. Now a proposed rule expands which animals must be identified, including young feeder cattle, which are processed at a young age and never enter the breeding herd.
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Posted by
MOFGApedia Editor on March 01, 2007
The USDA, with the publication of the “NAIS User Guide,” is now emphasizing its National Animal Identification System as a voluntary rather than mandatory program and is letting states determine their own rules.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture, working closely with livestock industry representatives, has proposed a system that would require all farms in the country to be registered and all animals to have a formal identification system. The National Animal ID System (NAIS), as proposed, would require that all premises in the country that have farm animals be registered by January 2008; animal identification systems be in place by January 2008; and animal tracking systems, with a recordkeeping system to track any animal movement from the farm to slaughter, be in place by January 2009.
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