Source: FARM PROGRESS, 10/28/19


USDA has “paused” its efforts to move toward RFID technology as the acceptable form of animal identification for its Animal Disease Traceability program. Friday, October 25, USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) removed a fact sheet on the issue from its website. Here is a APHIS statement on its decision to pause the effort to incorporate RFID technology into animal disease traceability:

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