Swine Identification Update

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Swine Identification Update

• Patrick Webb DVM
• Director of Swine Health Programs
• National Pork Board

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Swine Program Standards

• Pork Industry Identification Working Group
  (PIIWG)
• Developed the Swine Program Standards
• Enhances the current mandatory system that has
  been in place since 1988
• Submitted to the Animal ID Subcommittee and USDA
  as an industry accepted method for meeting USDAs
  requirement of a 48 hour traceback.
• PIIWG approves changes to Standards

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Implementation

• Swine Identification Implementation Taskforce has
  been formed
• Includes a cross section of the swine industry,
  State and Federal representation and members and
  staff of NPPC and NBP
• Primary goal is to direct the implementation of
  the Swine Program Standards in an overall Swine
  ID Plan
• First meeting was in December of 2005

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Types of ID for Swine

• Definitions
• Swine Production System
• A swine production enterprise that consists of
  multiple sites of production i.e., sow herds,
  nursery herds, and growing or finishing herds,
  but not including slaughter plants or livestock
  markets, that are connected by ownership or
  contractual relationships, between which swine
  move while remaining under the control of a
  single owner or a group of contractually
  connected owners. (9 CFR 71.1)

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Types of ID for Swine

• Market Swine
• Inside the Production System (other than
  slaughter)
• Official Identification Methods
• PIN production records
• Easiest method
• GIN production records
• Used if reporting is required
• PIN and GIN can be used by producers in a Static
  (All in all out) or dynamic (continuous flow)
  System regardless of size of operation.

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Types of ID for Swine

• Market Swine
• Outside the Production System (other than
  slaughter)
• Must use an official identification method
• Official PIN Tag w/ Production Number
• Official AIN Tag
• Ear Tattoo bearing PIN of premises of origin
• Electronic ID (RFID) w/ AIN
• Tattoos (ear or flank) swine registry number
• Ear Notching purebred registry number
  (transitional) Official Metal Tags (transitional)

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Types of ID for Swine

• Show Pigs
• Are considered outside the production system
  because they are routinely commingled.
• Will require an AIN Tag to show
• Efforts will be made to make sure that 4H and FFA
  tags are compliant
• Includes pigs in terminal shows

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Types of ID for Swine

• 1st point of Concentration for Slaughter
• Market Swine
• Regardless of official identification method on
  the animal
• Bill of lading must have Premises ID number of
  last premises.
• Swine receive individual slap tattoo (same as
  current requirement)
• Owner, premises ID and tattoo numbers kept in
  company records

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Types of ID for Swine

• 1st point of Concentration for Slaughter
• Sows and Boars
• Official AIN Tag or PIN Tag w/ Production (if
  desired)
• Bill of lading must have Premises ID number of
  last premises.
• Owner, premises ID numbers kept in company records

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Movement Records

• Producer is responsible for recording
• Source PIN
• Destination PIN
• Numbers of head moved
• Date moved
• Group / Lot Number
• When moving within a production system
• AIN
• When commingled outside a production system
• Producers is responsible for reporting
• As required currently by law
• When requested by animal health authorities for
  disease investigations

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Challenges

• Mandatory vs. Voluntary
• Industry supports a mandatory system that is
  publicly funded.
• Database
• Industry supports a state held system that does
  not add additional costs to producers.
• Recording and Reporting
• Industry supports movement data to be captured
  and maintained by producers, production systems,
  and markets and then reported when required.

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Challenges

• Official Tags
• Approval of a visual PIN or AIN
• Confidentiality
• Information should be confidential
• Outreach
• Approval of Swine ID Plan

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Thanks!