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In the past few years the outbreak of animal diseases around the world, such as mad cow disease, foot-and-mouth disease, avian influenza, etc., to the people's health and life has brought serious harm to the heavy blow to the world's animal husbandry, thus causing the world, especially the European countries attach great importance to.
To this end, governments of various countries have rapidly formulated policies and adopted various measures to strengthen the management of animals, of which the identification and tracking of animals has become one of these major measures. For example, the British Government has stipulated that all kinds of tracking and identification means must be adopted for cattle, pigs, sheep and goats, horses and other breeding animals. In recent years, the practice of electronic identification of animals shows that RFID plays an increasingly important role in animal management.
Animal identification and tracking
Animal identification and tracking refers to the use of specific tags, with a certain technical means and the proposed identification of animals corresponding to, and can always track the relevant properties of animals and management of a technology.
Identification and tracking of a variety of animals, can strengthen the control and supervision of foreign animal diseases, to protect the safety of native species, to ensure the safety of international trade in livestock products; can strengthen the government's management of animal inoculation and disease prevention, to improve the diagnosis of animal diseases and reporting capabilities, as well as the emergency response to domestic and foreign animal epidemics.
Links involved in RFID
Feeding link
In the livestock birth feeding time, in the livestock body installed on the RFID tag (such as made into an ear tag or foot ring), these electronic tags in the livestock was born in the ear, and thereafter the breeder with a hand-held device, constantly set, collect or store information in the process of its growth, from the source of the production safety control. It also records the livestock's vaccination records, disease information and key information about the breeding process at all times. Before livestock slaughtering, RFID tags are first read through handheld machines to confirm that disease-free livestock can be released.
Slaughtering
Before slaughtering, read the RFID tags on the livestock to confirm that the livestock have been recorded as epidemic prevention and are actually healthy before they can be slaughtered and entered into the market, and at the same time write the information into the box label, the goods pallet label and the price tag.
Supervision by the competent authorities
The supervisory authorities in the process of market supervision, the requirement of all sales outlets of goods trays, packing boxes and price tags contain RFID tags, the origin of meat, name, type, grade, price and other relevant data written into the electronic tag.
The logistics distribution link
The fresh meat enters the circulation link, in loads the meat the tray or the packing box affixes the RFID electron label, transports to the designated supermarket or the market sales point, in the handover goods, only through the fixed long-distance range reads the card or the handhold read-write reads the packing box or the tray on the RFID electron label.
Foreign livestock management
Such as foreign provinces and cities shipped to have been slaughtered meat products to enter the market, the first to the designated regulatory location for product testing, after passing the test affixed to the product information and related test information of the electronic tag. At the same time, the regulatory authorities to issue the qualification certificate of the products sold in the market.
RFID ear tag and the use of electronic tags
Ear tag type electronic label performance is greatly superior to the bar code ear tag. Because the electronic label than the bar code storage data much more, and can be applied to have the oil, rainwater harsh environment. The reading distance of the reader is much larger than the reading distance of the bar code, and can realise the batch reading.
The basic functions of RFID animal management system
Basic animal information recording function
Birth information, feeder information, growth information, access to pasture, pen information and other basic information records.
Record function of epidemic prevention information
Record of epidemic prevention, vaccination, epidemic prevention inspection, epidemic prevention treatment and other information.
Supervision function of circulation link
Record of temperature, humidity, roadside inspection and other information
Functions of selling product information
Records of information on place of sale, date of sale, distributor information
Slaughtering and quarantine function
Records of information such as slaughtering and quarantine, date of slaughtering and storage environment
Functions of selling product information
Records of information on place of sale, date of sale, distributor information
Statistical query function of the state supervision department
System background management function
Traceability query function
This paper provides an in-depth discussion of the threat of global animal epidemics to the livestock industry and the measures taken by governments to address this challenge. Special emphasis is placed on the continuous upgrading of RFID technology in animal management, and the precise tracking of life cycle information by installing RFID tags on animals, so as to control the spread of diseases, protect the safety of native species, improve the monitoring and management capabilities of governments, and ensure the safety of international trade in livestock products.
