Worldwide Trend for Traceability and Purpose of the RFID Livestock management

In the wake of recent disease outbreaks amongst livestock (such as ‘mad cow disease’ and foot-and-mouth disease), countries around the world are implementing policies and procedures to ensure individual whole-of-life traceability for all livestock. RFID is the technology of choice for these solutions. Countries such as those within the European Union have enacted policies to ensure livestock can be traced through its entire lifecycle, Canada has enacted legislation requiring all livestock within Canada to be tagged with an approved RFID device by 2006 and America is currently operating voluntary trial operations utilizing RFID tags while considering a full animal identification proposal. Trials of RFID technology for identification and tracking of livestock have been taking place in America since 1998, when the National Farm Animal Identification and Records pilot project was launched. CMRFID Technology CO., Ltd. has played an important role in providing direct solution including hardware and software to global market.
These whole-of-life traceability CMRFID programs are designed to record and present accurate and up-to-date information regarding all cattle movements. Such systems enable authorities to rapidly trace the origins of any cattle diagnosed with a serious contagious disease (should one ever occur), identifying farms and animals that may have been affected, or even been the source. Subsequently, they are able to take direct appropriate action to minimize further spread. Such traceability systems are required so as to reduce the possible impacts of a terrorist attack upon the livestock industry.