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USDA starts rolling out animal identification numbers For more info click on above link The Department of Agriculture has announced plans to begin allocating animal identification numbers under the National Animal Identification System. The long-term goal of the voluntary system is to provide health officials with the capability to identify production animals and premises that have had direct contact with a disease of concern within 48 hours after discovery. The initial animal identification numbers will be for cattle, which typically have ear tags for official identification. Animal identification numbers will eventually extend to species that have other
Comments sought on microchipping For more info click on above link The Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced that it will accept comments regarding the use of microchipping to identify animals covered under the Animal Welfare Act. The agency will hold a final meeting to discuss the issue in San Diego, May 10. Several meetings have already taken place since late March in Centennial, Colo.; Boston; Baton Rouge, La.; Springfield, Mo.; and Riverdale, Md. The USDA APHIS was directed by the conference committee report accompanying the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration,
Many myths, rumors and misinformation are circulating about premises and animal identification. In Texas, 14,341 premises were registered, as of May 25. Below is text from a new brochure to help with some of the misinformation. Carla Everett, TAHC. For more info, brochures, or to schedule an ID presentation, call the Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) -800-550-8242 or just email me! TAHC web site: http://www.tahc.state.tx.us USDA’s ID web site: http://animalid.aphis.usda.gov/nais/index.shtml In a Nutshell: NAIS The National Animal Identification System (NAIS) is designed to provide the capacity to rapidly identify all animals and premises (sites) that have had
Things like this should tell folks what this NAIS plan is really about……….our money! They’ve picked on the worng people! Lots of common sense! FYI. Here at the Bastrop Texas Extension Service Meeting . A person asked the A&M doctor about the wild hog problem, what were they going to do about them, how were they going to tag them. We have lots of wild hogs. The Vet replied that wild animals really did not pose a problem because they did not generally mix with domestic livestock. He was just about laughed  out of the sales barn. Wild hogs
From Mike Kelley with www.texasanimalhealthcommissionwatch.com Texas Representative Bryan Hughes representing District 5; which includes Camp, Harrison, Upshur and Woods counties has introduced HB 47. HB 47 would in affect repeal HB 1361. HB 47 would only authorize TAHC to create a voluntary NAIS program consistent with a USDA program, if such a program is ever officially enacted. This bill would also require that those who wish to enroll pay fees to support said program. Members of various organizations to include Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance (FARFA) will be working with Representative Hughes to fine tune this bill
Tech industry attacks state anti-RFID laws | CNET News.com For more info click on above link ARLINGTON, Va.–In at least a dozen states, the electronics industry has been waging a battle against a rash of proposed laws aimed at limiting–and in some cases outlawing–use of electronically readable chips in personal identification documents. No states have enacted such laws yet, but bills have been up for debate in California, New Hampshire, Washington, Rhode Island, New Mexico, Illinois and Missouri, among others, during the past couple of years, panelists said Wednesday at an industry conference here about smart card
New Wal-Mart CIO steams ahead with RFID | CNET News.com More info click o above link Wal-Mart Stores’ new chief information officer is singing the praises of radio frequency identification tags. Rollin Ford, who is also an executive vice president at the retail giant, promised at a company-sponsored conference last week to pursue the expanded use of the tracking technology as fervently as his predecessor. There will be no slowing down. RFID will transform the way we do business,” he reiterated in a statement. Wal-Mart has been pioneering the use of the controversial technology in the retail
New RFID travel cards could pose privacy threat | CNET News.com For more info click on above link ARLINGTON, Va.–Future government-issued travel documents may feature embedded computer chips that can be read at a distance of up to 30 feet, a top Homeland Security official said Tuesday, creating what some fear would be a threat to privacy. Jim Williams, director of the Department of Homeland Security’s US-VISIT program, told a smart card conference here that such tracking chips could be inserted into the new generation of wallet-size identity cards used to ease travel by Americans to Canada
RFID vulnerable to attacks, researchers say | CNET News.com For more info click on above link Researchers say they have proven that effective attacks can be launched against radio frequency identification tags. In tests, standard “Generation 1” RFID tags and readers were unable to function after they were overloaded with data, researchers at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia, said in a report published this month. “Vulnerabilities in the newer UHF style of RFID tags have been found and are of concern for anyone trying to implement an RFID system that would have ‘mission critical’ or human
 For Immediate Release: April 9, 2006  Contact: Judith McGeary Executive Director Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance Email: jmcgeary@att.net Phone: (512) 243-2706  Leading the Fight Against NAIS  The Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance (FARFA), a newly-created nonprofit organization, will lobby on behalf of independent farmers and ranchers. For too long, legislators and agency bureaucrats have heard only from large, corporate producers. Meanwhile, independent producers have been largely unrepresented.  This lack of representation has culminated in the current problem: the creation and pending implementation of a national animal identification system (“NAISâ€). NAIS poses a
RFID viruses? Don’t panic, say experts – Malware – Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com Click on above link for more info Dutch researchers have announced they have successfully created a virus capable of infecting RFID tags. In a new study, Is Your Cat Infected with a Computer Virus? scientists from the Computer Systems Group at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam revealed that data from RFID tags can be used to exploit back-end software systems. The academics also went on to create a proof-of-concept virus, which uses the track and trace tags to compromise middleware systems
Citibank card fraud – magnetic strip to blame? – Financial Services – Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com For more info click on above link A Citibank ATM network breach in Canada, Russia and the UK could have been prevented if the bank’s US customers had chip and PIN technology on their cards, a leading analyst has said. Citibank this week admitted that hundreds of its US customers had been affected when hackers broke into the ATM network through a retail store server and stole a “block” of PINs and the keys to decrypt them. Avivah
News Release Texas Animal Health Commission Box l2966 * Austin, Texas 78711 * (800) 550-8242 * FAX (512) 719-0719 Bob Hillman, DVM * Executive Director For info, contact Carla Everett, information officer, at 1-800-550-8242, ext. 710, or ceverett@tahc.state.tx.us For immediate release The Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) has canceled its March 23 meeting, which had been scheduled in Round Rock (near Austin). The commissioners had planned to consider proposed regulations that would require registration of sites where livestock, exotic livestock, domestic fowl and exotic fowl are held, managed or handled, and to charge a fee for premises
Commissioners for the Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) will meet at 8 a.m. Thursday, March 23, in Round Rock (just north of Austin) to address proposed regulations for registering sites where livestock, exotic livestock, domestic fowl, and exotic fowl are held, managed or handled.
By Jo Best
The Klinikum Saarbruecken in Germany, which launched a landmark RFID pilot last year to identify patients, is now adding the track-and-trace chips to its blood supplies.