National Traceability NAIS-Update

“Protecting Animal Agriculture”

Today’s Disease Risk

Intensification and Globalization 23,580 Shipments = Over 17 million animals

Do We Need a more Effective Disease Traceability System?

Enhance disease response

– Goal “to identify premises and animals that had direct contact with diseases of concern within 48 hours after discovery.”

Reduce impact of animal health incidents or agro-terrorism events

Improve our response to animal emergency events

Industry and Producer Benefits

– Maintain confidence in animal products

– Gain market access and consumer demand

Not a New Concept

Animal Health officials have performed individual identification of certain animals and premises (locations with livestock and poultry) for over a century

Used to identify and test animals for diseases

– Brucellosis (Since 1940’s) Used to identify vaccinated heifers for

brucellosis Identified individual animals with a unique

tag Linked to a location at time of vaccination

Remember Why !!

Today, animal health officials can not effectively respond to disease threats with current animal ID & traceability programs.–Tuberculosis - CA, MI, MN, TX (02,04, 05, 07-08) –Exotic Newcastle Disease – AZ, CA, NV, TX (02, 03)–High Path Avian Influenza –TX (04)–Vesicular Stomatitis – CO, ID, MT, NM, TX, UT, WY (03, 04, 05, 06)–BSE – AL, TX, WA, (04-06)–Brucellosis – ID, TX, WY(06-07)–Equine Herpes Virus – CA, CO, CT, FL, KY, NJ, VA (06,07)

Poor Animal TraceabilityWill Cost Producers Money

1999 UC Davis Disease Study (Ekboir)

Foot and Mouth Disease outbreak would result in $6 to $14 billion in losses to the agriculture industry

Loss of $1 to $3 million for every hour delay in tracking the index animal/herd

Traceability

It’s all about Foot and Mouth Disease and BSE, right?

Traceability

No! CDFA conducts disease tracing all year CDFA conducted 215 Brucellosis investigations in

2006 with some years as high as 600 investigations.

Other diseases of interest included Trichomonosis, TB, and diseases associated with other species (scrapie).

Identification and good records are critical for tracking down the source of the problem.

Resources and personnel investigate each event with the best available tools (I.e., paper records, rancher’s memory).

National Animal ID System (NAIS)

Established in 2002 Industry leaders developed the U.S. Animal

Identification Plan Cooperative State-Federal-Industry program USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection

Service (APHIS) administers the system Voluntary program 48 hour traceability objective

National Animal ID System

PIN- Premises ID Number – 7 digit alphanumeric (A123R45)

AIN-Animal Identification Number – 15 digit numeric (840 123456789012)

Animal Tracing– Date of event– Type of event (move in, move out)– AIN– PIN

Animal Identification

USDA is technology neutral– Specifies that the official

identification number is the visible number

– Electronic or identification is considered supplementary

Cattle Species Working Group (SWG) recommended visible low frequency Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in left ear

Equine SWG recommends RFID microchip

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Animal Identification & Tracing

7 manufacturers 22 RFID and visual

tags approved 2 microchip

transponder 5 fully compliant

animal tracing databases

12 tracing databases in development

Tier 1 Primary food animals

– Cattle, Swine, Poultry (Chickens and Turkeys), Sheep, and Goats

Equine – competition horse industry

Tier 2All other livestock

Prioritization of species/sectors

Focus where enhancements offer the greatest value/merit

Disease riskHuman health riskCapability of existing infrastructureEconomic meritPotential for disease spread

Prioritization of species/sectors

Prioritization of species/sectors

Low Medium High

Ovine (Sheep)Aquatics1

Porcine (Swine)Equine (Horses)2

Poultry (Chickens and Turkeys)

Cervid1 (Deer & Elk)Caprine (Goats)

Bovine (Cattle)

Harmonization

Work with government and industry programs– Breed associations– Alliances– Agricultural Marketing Services-QSA and PVP– COOL

International efforts– Mexico & Canada

Convergence and Integration

Integration with disease programs Uniform standards for data collection PIN will be the only location identifier for disease

programs Apply to Interstate Certificates of Veterinary

Inspection (ICVI’s)

Partnership and Collaboration

Work with states to advance traceability Collaboration with Industry Partners

– Veterinarians– Brand Inspection– USAIO– Angus Association– FFA– Packers and Renders– IMI Global/

Humane Farm Animal Care

– IDairy

Final Thoughts

Investigation of disease events takes place on a frequent basis and not every 10 to 20 years.

Current premises identification, animal identification, and animal tracing tools are not adequate to effectively manage animal diseases or incidents.

The livestock industry has an opportunity to shape a national traceability program, but it will take active participation to make it your program!

Questions

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