RFID Animal Identification and Tracking ...

From The Committee on Energy and Commerce ...

... "considering the billions of animals bought and sold each year for human consumption, coupled with the increased risk of bio-terror, airborne and genetic diseases, efficient, comprehensive data capture tools - like RFID tags - are practically a global trade requirement. The EU plans to implement a pan-European electronic animal identifier system by 2006. At that point, the system will not only gather information from electronic readers of individual animal tags, but will also include an electronic identifier management module. Say for example the electronic identifier is in the form of an ear tag. In addition to registering the tags themselves, ear tag suppliers and distributors could be registered, along with the individuals authorized to apply ear tags to animals (farmers, veterinarians, control assistants, etc). " ...