NATIONAL ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM (NAIS)

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NATIONAL ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM (NAIS)

1. Why is identification important?
2. Why is speed and accuracy crucial?
3. What is current status?
4. What is being done to improve?
5. How is technology being used?
6. What are some challenges?

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BESSIE
My actions matter
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A Simulated Outbreak in U.S.

• Begins on farm in northwest Iowa near South
  Dakota border.
• Eleven days between exposure and diagnosis.

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BESSIE HAS FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE (FMD)
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Simulated Outbreak (continued)

• Intensive epidemiological investigation of farm
  animals and wildlife.
• Restricted zone (6.2 miles around the infected or
  presumed affected facilities).

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Day 1
Total 13
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Simulated Outbreak (continued)

• Appraisal, depopulation, disposal of livestock.
• Decontamination of affected farms. Law
  enforcement limits livestock and human movement.
• Surveillance zone comprising entire state and
  those nearby modified pending surveillance.
• Inspection visits within a four-state quarantine
  zone.

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Quarantined States
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Day 5 Detected Cases
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Day 25
Total 3091
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Day 35
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Day 60
Total 5844
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The Impact

• 5,844 affected farms, with an average of 200
  animals on each farm, within 60 days of initial
  detection
• 350 to appraise each farm (2.04 million)
• 5.50 to euthanize each animal (6.43 million)
• 325 in indemnity payments to farmers for each
  animal destroyed (379.86 million)

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Impact (continued)

• 15 to dispose of each animal (17.53 million)
• 8,000 to clean and disinfect each farm (46.75
  million)
• 3,200 further surveillance cost for each
  affected location (18.71 million)Total direct
  cost 471.32 millionDoesnt include likely
  export losses.

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Expectations

• With rapid response and immediate implementation,
  this scenario could have been brought under
  control much sooner, saving millions of dollars
  in response and recovery costs.

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A simulated outbreak in U.S.

• Begins on farm in northwest Iowa near South
  Dakota border.
• Eleven days between exposure and diagnosis.

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Challenges in Tracking Animals

• Animals transported great distances.
• Large number of movements (auction markets, video
  markets, private treaty, etc.).
• Interstate movements.
• Lack of unique idenification.

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BESSIE THE TRAVELING COW
And she travels incognito
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Cattle Movement from one Nebraska Auction Market
56 sites 18 counties
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What is Current Traceability Capability?

• Animal Health Officials must manually search
  through
• auction market paperwork
• brand records
• state health papers
• interview producers
• Results are often inconclusive

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What is Current Traceability Capability? The
BSE cow in Washington (December 2003) was 1 of 81
imported only 29 were ever identified.
Texas BSE, June 2005 of 200 animals
associated with index farm 66 were never
accounted for Your Animals. Your Livelihood.
Your Future.
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• What is Current Traceability Capability?
• AL BSE, March, 2006
• No tag
• No tattoo
• No brand
• Red cow, 750 1,150 lbs., 8-12 years old
• Attempted DNA analysis from 37 different
  potential source herds animal never
  identified
• Your Animals. Your Livelihood. Your Future.

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What are we doing?
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How do we improve traceability?

• Premises Registration and NAIS dont change
  anything about the response to disease (still
  investigated, animals tested, etc.) EXCEPT it
  speeds up the response.
• Increased speed allows producers to get back to
  normal quicker and reduces the spread/impact of a
  disease.

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PREMISES REGISTRATION

• PROVIDES A KNOWN REFERENCE OR INDEX POINT FOR
  ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION
• 30,841 premises in Nebraska
• 17,156 are registered as of November 9, 2008
• 55.6 of premises are registered
• 6,623 new registrations since January 2007
• 62.9 growth in registered premises

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ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION

• Unique (tag number)
• Standard Format (searchable) 15 DIGIT 840 TAG
• Origin known (premises registered) 003DRN7
• Interim Reading Sites (salebarns, feedyards etc)
• Retirement of Tag (slaughter, rendering etc)

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MULTIPLE IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMSDIFFERENT PRIMARY
USES

• AGE AND SOURCE VERIFICATION
• HERD MANAGEMENT
• DISEASE PROGRAMS

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HARMONIZE ID PROGRAMS

• Promote 840 RFID tag as standard
• Working with Agriculture Marketing Services to
  promote use of 840 in Age/Source and other
  programs

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OFFICIAL CALFHOOD VACCINATION PROJECT

• Over 30,000 special orange 840 RFID tags
  distributed
• 15 fee basis veterinarians participating

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GOOD THINGS!

• First herds vaccinated and tag movements
  recorded.
• Interest by veterinarians to promote 840 RFID
  tags.
• Mobile Information Management (MIM)-PDA demo
  pilot program.

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ADDITIONAL PROJECT DEMONSTRATION ACTIVITIES

• MIM PDA
• Will read Management tags
• Will read other official ID
• Populate and print required forms

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NAIS DEMONSTRATION PURPOSE FOR MIM PDA

• Demonstrate benefits of 840 RFID to
• Producer
• Practitioner
• Markets
• Buyers
• Age and Source Verification Services

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TRACKING BESSIE

• Apply an 840 RFID tag
• Record the application location
• Record the tag location as it changes
• Display History of the 840 RFID tag when an event
  triggers the need to know
• Retire 840 RFID tag

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BLUETOOTH
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PANEL READERS ANOTHER OPTION TO READ RFID TAGS
DURING WORK PROCESSES
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A simulated outbreak in U.S.

• Begins on farm in northwest Iowa near South
  Dakota border.
• Eleven days between exposure and diagnosis.

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THE RIGHT ACCESSORIES ARE ESSENTIAL