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**NAIS**; also Codex Alimentarius, OIE, and WTO
Topic Started: Thursday, 29. December 2005, 11:26 (1,796 Views)
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USDA Approves First UHF Tag for Animal Identification System
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Jan. 7, 2010—The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has approved a passive ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) RFID tag for cattle tracking that will be used in conjunction with the agency's Animal Identification Number (AIN) system.
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The eTattoo tag fills a need in the cattle industry for a tag with a long read range, says Doran Junek, a member of Eriginate's board of directors.
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...Hammerschmidt notes, some cattle owners and operators have requested technology with a longer read range.
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The company has since been testing how well the tags can be read. ... The tags performed well, ... being read up to 15 feet away with a handheld interrogator, and more than 25 feet with a fixed reader.
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The eTattoo tag is now commercially available in the United States, and is being sold by Fort Supply Technologies.
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This is interesting. Throughout the listening sessions the main concern (based on comments) was loss of rights/freedom, and too much gov't that favors big AgriBiz vs the smaller farmer. The article referenced below states that it's privacy people are worried about. Comments (pasted below) regarding this article relay that the writers are under false assumptions.

NAIS privacy not black and white issue
By Gene Lucht and Jeff DeYoung
Iowa Farmer Today
Privacy has been a central issue in the debate over whether to make a National Animal Identification System mandatory or voluntary.

“It’s a legitimate concern,” says Doug O’Brien, a staff attorney at the Drake University Agricultural Law Center in Des Moines.
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Barbara wrote on Dec 16, 2009 12:12 PM:
" Why do you only mention confidentiality concerns? Why don't you mention the loss of private property rights through premise ID?
Neil Hammerschmidt has never given a straight answer to this question - "If I have a premise ID, can you enter my private property without permission or a warrant?"
It seems apparent he can't just say "no" without lying, so that is why he responded by saying that they don't need a warrant if the governor declares an emergency. That's a pretty big IF.
Tell USDA to answer the question and to put it in writing! How many times do we need to ask this? What are they trying to hide? "

Privacy You have to be joking. wrote on Dec 16, 2009 9:04 AM:
" People are concerned about government of the corporations, by the corporations, for the corporations. "

Bob Constantine wrote on Dec 11, 2006 8:59 PM:
" "federal law will protect the confidential information from disclosure" ? Maybe some people don't care if federal law will protect disclosure to other people...maybe they are concerned about disclosing their information to an ever increasing invasive government. Government doesn't own the people...big business isn't suppose to "own" government. If "the people" don't want government to do something, as in the people don't want NAIS stuck up their butts, maybe "government" should remember "they" are supposed to serve "us"...Somewhere along the line the word serve got changed to "rule" and voluntary got changed to mandatory... We are heading down the road that sounds too Orwellian. People don't like to be dictated to by a government that fails to serve the people and is simply an extension of big business. Most animal "diseases" are due to unclean slaughter house practices, NOT SOMETHING A FORCED REGISTRATION WILL PREVENT! Paint it any way you want to, our government is kowtowing to the highest bidder...Just see who's backing NAIS and check who contributed to their campaigns... NAIS is all about market control, government dictating, greed and protecting the big guy. Who's looking out for the little guy? Or doesn't the little guy count anymore? The bill of rights has taken a beating lately, it's time our elected officials and our "unelected" appointed government officials remember "our rights" aren't granted to us by the government...they're inalienable...look it up. "

Bob Constantine wrote on Dec 9, 2006 7:02 PM:
" ...Shades of gray? I don't think so. It's very clear that NAIS will infringe on constitutional rights. Manipulating the words, something lawyers are trained to do, won't change the fact another right will be taken. "Federal law" will protect the confidentiality? C'mon who's kidding who, "they" can't buy a toilet seat for less than $100, do you really expect our government to protect information? I hope they do a better job with this than they did "protecting" social security numbers! When does it stop? Nais isn't about protecting people, it's about who makes money. Surprised? Well you shouldn't be. Check out Nonais.org to find out why we don't need another useless government program that protects their cronies in big business and shafts the average small farmer. Speak up now while you still can! "
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http://www.houstonherald.com/articles/2010/02/02/news/doc4b689fd2589ff850758000.txt
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Despite warnings of a winter storm approaching, the Ozarks Property Rights Congress convened last Thursday in Mountain Grove to hear about the identification of cattle at some sale barns in the region.

Doreen Hannes spoke to the group about the practice started at some area sale barns, at the direction of agriculture personnel, of tagging cows with National Animal Identification System tags. She said according to all NAIS documents issued over the past several years, it is very clear that "840" (NAIS) tags must be connected to a premise number of the producer where the animal was born and the premise number of the buyer of the animal. She said this is a back door attempt to bring unsuspecting sellers and buyers of cows into the NAIS premise registration program.
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Hannes and others at the meeting told of sale barn owners and vets saying they had been told by department personnel to use the NAIS tags in cows coming through the sale beginning Jan. 1.
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"The sale barns are caught in the middle of this," said PRC president Russell Wood. "They feel they have to do what MDOA tells them but at the same time they are going to have some mad customers who end up in the NAIS program just by buying or selling at the sale barn. Producers should ask their sale barn if they are using the 840 NAIS tags before they unload."
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NY Times makes it "seem" like NAIS is dead
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This article, ... headline makes it sound like the Feds are giving up on NAIS. But they are not. Animal traceback and destruction are still included in S510 (which WILL go to a vote one of these days...) and the article itself makes it clear that states are still expected to work on traceback and that the Feds will design a new program.

Disturbingly, the article also says the American Farm Bureau was against NAIS, but they were in fact, a major author of it.

We know that many people don't read entire newspaper articles; makes you wonder if the USDA submitted a press release with this headline because it served them to mislead, or if the newspaper had a reason to mislead.
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Press Release
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Former USDA Leader and AVMA CEO, Dr. Ron DeHaven Responds in Video to USDA Decision to Scrap Animal ID System

SCHAUMBURG, Ill., March 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A recent decision by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to scrap a national animal identification system could seriously hinder U.S. veterinarians' ability to track diseased animals and prevent the spread of those diseases -- diseases that could spread to humans and cost U.S. farmers millions of dollars.

That's the message that Dr. Ron DeHaven, chief executive officer of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) and a former head of the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, delivers in a new video which can be viewed on www.avmatv.org, the AVMA Media Library (www.avma.org) and YouTube. "I have a number of concerns," Dr. DeHaven says in the video.

Last month, the USDA announced that it was going to scrap the eight years of work and $120 million it poured into creation of the National Animal Identification System (NAIS). Instead, the USDA announced it will restart the process and begin developing a new state-based animal identification system.

"By having an animal ID program in place, we can more quickly contain and eliminate disease. Doing so not only minimizes the economic impact, but by minimizing the number of animals affected, we reduce animal suffering," Dr. DeHaven says in the video. "In the case of zoonotic diseases -- diseases that can spread from animals to humans - we reduce the potential that the disease will spread to humans."

Dr. DeHaven says that one of the biggest problems with this announcement is that there will be no animal ID system during this new development period, which could take years. DeHaven is also critical of the USDA announcement that cattle branding -- an outdated form of theft deterrent -- will be an acceptable form of animal identification in the new system. "It's hard for me to imagine how this ancient technology will fit into a modern, interstate system to trace animals," DeHaven says in the video.

As opposed to NAIS, which is a national program, the new system will be administered by individual states and tribal nations. Each state and tribal nation will be allowed to use its own system of identification.

"Will these systems developed by individual states and tribal nations be compatible with each other?" Dr. DeHaven asks in the video. "Will we actually be able to trace animals as they move from state to state with different systems in each state or tribal nation?"

The full video can be viewed at the AVMA's video site, AVMA-TV, at www.avmatv.org, and a downloadable version of the video is available to journalists through the association's media library, www.avmamedia.org. As with all its Web videos, the AVMA encourages bloggers and journalists to freely post and quote from this video. AVMA-TV offers a full library of videos about veterinary medicine -- from veterinary careers to food safety and brushing your pet's teeth -- open for use by the public.

For any other information about veterinary medicine, please visit www.avma.org.

The AVMA, founded in 1863, is one of the oldest and largest veterinary medical organizations in the world. More than 80,000 member veterinarians are engaged in a wide variety of professional activities. AVMA members are dedicated to advancing the science and art of veterinary medicine including its relationship to public health and agriculture. Visit the AVMA Web site at www.avma.org to learn more about veterinary medicine and animal care and to access up-to-date information on the association's issues, policies and activities.

SOURCE American Veterinary Medical Association

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CDC: Mandatory Not Necessary
News — walterj 4:41 pm

In a startling little sideline the United States Center for Disease Control (CDC) has demonstrated why a mandatory tracking system is not necessary for disease detectives. Likewise this demonstrates how the USDA’s proposed National Animal Identification System (NAIS) is also not necessary.
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As they scrambled recently to trace the source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds around the country, investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention successfully used a new tool for the first time - the shopper cards that millions of Americans swipe every time they buy groceries.

With permission from the patients, investigators followed the trail of grocery purchases to a Rhode Island company that makes salami, then zeroed in on the pepper used to season the meat.

Never before had the CDC successfully mined the mountain of data that supermarket chains compile. “It was really exciting. It was a break in the investigation for sure,” CDC epidemiologist Casey Barton Behravesh said. At least 245 people in 44 states have been sickened in the outbreak. That includes 30 in California, 19 in Illinois, 18 in New York and 17 in Washington state.
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So the CDC asked supermarkets for certain buying information on seven victims in Washington state, focusing on suspect products rather than everything the customers had bought, Behravesh said. “We didn’t care about the brand of toilet paper people were buying,” she said.

Of those seven people, five had bought Italian meats made by the Rhode Island company, Danielle International Inc., Behravesh said. Further investigation - including the use of data from other victims’ shopper cards - pointed to salami made by Danielle and, more specifically, the imported pepper it was coated in. That came from two spice suppliers in New York and New Jersey. All three companies have since recalled some products.

The CDC would not say how many patients gave access to their accounts or were asked to do so, but Behravesh said most agreed. “Most of the time when a person gets really sick with a food-borne pathogen, they’re very happy to talk with us and try to help out with the investigation,” she said.
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The fact that the CDC was able to so quickly and successfully use the voluntary consumer shopping cards of just the consumers who agreed to release their own data to track down the salmonella contaminated pepper is proof that we do not need mandatory tracking systems. People should have the fundamental freedom to opt-in or opt-out of any of these sorts of programs at their discretion. Their data should only be used with their permission.
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USDA runs around NAIS
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Sen. Mike Johanns addressed the Nebraska Cattlemen's Midyear Meeting on Friday at Sandhills Convention Center and offered his thoughts on many subjects, two of which he believes are threats to the group. The first-term U.S. senator is a former governor of Nebraska and also served as secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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The second biggest threat to cattle producers, Johanns said, is the National Animal Identification System. Recently the USDA announced it was doing away with the current NAIS and, following some town hall meetings, adopting a new system.

However, Johanns believes the USDA is simply doing an end-round on cattle producers.

"When I was secretary of the USDA, we looked at making NAIS mandatory," he said. "However, the more I got out across the country and talked to cattlemen, the more I realized they wanted the choice to do if it benefited them, or the choice not to do it.

"So, we left it there and didn't make it mandatory. The new system, I believe, is a way to make it mandatory."

Johanns said the key component is simple - most cattle cross state lines at some time. The USDA's new policy states cattle that will not cross state lines do not have to be identified, but all other cattle must.

"This is an end-round way of making NAIS mandatory," Johanns said.
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APHIS Announces More Animal Disease Traceability Public Meetings
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The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) will be holding two additional public meetings on the animal disease traceability framework approach. The meetings will take place this month in Salt Lake City, Utah, and next month in Fort Worth, Texas. Additional meetings will be scheduled in the coming weeks.

In May 2010 USDA hosted three public meetings to discuss Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack's new framework for animal disease traceability. Meetings were held May 11 in Kansas City, Mo.; May 13 in Riverdale, Md.; and May 17 in Denver, Colo. Approximately 60 people attended each meeting. For more information on these as well as future meetings, please visit APHIS' website.

These meetings are being scheduled to discuss animal disease traceability with livestock industry representatives and members of the public to gather feedback on appropriate approaches under the new framework. The public meetings will be held from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. local time, with registration starting one hour prior to each meeting. The meetings will be held in the following locations:

* Thursday, June 24: Salt Lake City, Utah
* Thursday, July 1: Ft. Worth, Texas

A Federal Register notice about the meetings is forthcoming to officially announce the meetings. Additional meetings will be scheduled in the coming weeks.
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http://www.agra-net.com/portal2/home.jsp?template=newsarticle&artid=20017882865&pubid=ag096

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USDA's animal ID framework proposal draws early criticism

Wednesday June 22 2011

USDA's proposed new animal identification framework, expected in April, is still under review by the White House Office of Management and Budget. However, it is already drawing criticism from a diverse coalition of advocacy groups.

USDA abandoned its unpopular National Animal Identification System (NAIS) last year in favor of a new, flexible framework for animal disease traceability. APHIS announced that its efforts would: (1) only apply to animals moved in interstate commerce; (2) be administered by the states and tribal nations to provide more flexibility; (3) encourage the use of lower-cost technology; and (4) be implemented transparently through federal regulations and the full rulemaking process.
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