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BRATTLEBORO, VT. - Will
take an incident of "Mad Cow
Disease" to force the U.S. live
stock industry to crate a system
to identify animals and track
their movement throughout the
production chain? Not if
Holstein Association USA has
anything to say about it.
The Holstein Association
USA has anything to say about
The Holstein Association is
taking a practice approach to
develop an infrastructure that
would prepare our country for
any similar event and to prevent
it from devastating the industry.
National Farm Animal
Identification and Records
(F.A.1.R.), a model for a national
identification system for dairy,
will be one of the first steps in a
comprehensive livestock ID sys
tem.
F.A.I.R. will design a unified
system of animal identification
to help ensure that public and
private efforts to improve ani
mal health/disease control, food
safety, trade, and genetic
advancement are successful.
The model recently received
funding support from USDA
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Holstein Association USA Taking Proactive Role
In National Livestock Identification System
APHIS and will be coordinated
by the Holstein Association. In
early 1996, the Council on Dairy
Cattle Breeding provided indus
try support for the consideration
of such a model demonstration.
The project will be tested in four
states: New York, Pennsylvania,
Wisconsin and California.
The model is intended to
unify animal identification pro
grams and link animal record
ing systems to provide accurate,
complete, and cost-effective
information that meets needs of
the various segments of the
industry. The demonstration
will provide for the design and
testing of methods to track ani
mals from farm to farm, farm to
market, and market to slaugh
ter.
Identification methods will
include both RFID transponders
and visible plastic ear tags. In
addition to identification sys
tems and methods, issues of
electronic data flow, data base
administration and accessibility
will be established.
The National F.A.I.R. project
is supported by APHIS's
National Animal Health
Programs. "The Holstein
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Association's experience in ani
mal identifications and long tern
efforts for improving the system
in the United States makes
them a natural for leading the
efforts for this program," said
Bill Ford, Staff Officer at
USDA's National Animal Health
Programs. "The vast support
throughout the industry is a real
catalyst for successful results."
"While the project is relative
ly small in comparison to pro
jects in other countries, we are
anxious to develop a model that
will help us answer many ques
tions that have been very diffi
cult to get our hands around,"
said Neil Hammerschmidt,
Coordinator for the National
F.A.I.R project. Hammerschmidt
is the Executive Director, Dairy
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"The alignment we have
established with APHIS is very
significant as we develop one ID
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Joan Arnold, Deputy
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Services, USDA-APHIS, empha
sized the importance of animal
identification. "It is the basis for
our success in controlling exist
ing diseases and protecting
against new diseases. We must
devote time and effort to ID sys
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which will be assigned and
attached to each animal. Using
sophisticated computer systems,
a national database will be cre
ated to track the movement and
progress of the animal through
out its entire life. USDA's new
food safety regulations and the
National F.A.I.R. system will
give the U.S. the tools that it
needs to enhance farm animal
food quality and safety.
"This is a critical project for
the entire livestock industry,"
Steve Kerr, CEO of Holstein
Association USA said. "As
USDA's successful eradication
program for Brucellosis draws to
a close, the void in animal iden
tification in the United States
will quickly become much more
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