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Presentations:  2011 NIAA Annual Conference • 2010 NIAA Annual Meeting • 2009 NIAA Annual Meeting •2008 NIAA Annual Meeting • 2007 NIAA Annual Meeting • ID•INFO                                   EXPO
Committee:  Animal Identification & Information Systems
2010-2011 Resolutions:  Animal Identification & Information Systems Committee • Equine Committee • Sheep & Goat Committee
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Industry News

New Livestock Identification Regulations Not Burdensome, Cattle Expert Reports (4-29-13)

French Retailer with Hands-on Approach to Traceability (3-25-13)

BMC Had No Traceability System (2-19-13)

Trends in Traceability (1-18-13)

''ID-Day'' now scheduled for March 11 (1-9-13)

Ear-Tag Tracking System Developed at UK Could Keep Cattle Herds Healthier (12-20-12)

States Lead The Way In ID Traceability (11-26-12)

Texas Animal Health Commission Announces Details Of Cattle Traceability Rule (11-8-12)

2013 First-Time FEI Horse Registration: Microchips Required (10-21-12)

UPDATES: New Rules Address Tagging, Health Certificates

Texas Animal Health Commission Announces Details of Cattle Identification Plan (10-9-12)

Farm and Consumer Groups Protest Animal ID Efforts (9-19-12)

Brazilian State Plans Cattle Traceability System With Ear-Tags And Chips (8-17-12)

2009

ID•INFO EXPO 2009: Presentations Available Online (9-1-09)

2007

ID•INFO EXPO 2007 Virtual Media Center: Bruce Knight (8-30-07)

ID•INFO EXPO 2007 Virtual Media Center: Update Day Two (8-30-07)

ID•INFO EXPO 2007 Virtual Media Center: Update Day One (8-29-07)

2006

ID•INFO EXPO 2006 Virtual Media Center: Update Final Day (8-24-06)

Industry Speaks Out on National Animal Identification:  Survey reveals experts opinion of National Animal ID (8-24-06)

ID•INFO EXPO 2006 Virtual Media Center: Update Day Two (8-23-06)

ID•INFO EXPO 2006 Virtual Media Center: Update Day One (8-22-06)

NIAA Statement Regarding USDA's Consideration of New Animal ID Approach (1-3-06)

2005

NIAA Survey Suggests Concern for Private Database Among Beef Industry (10-17-05)

NIAA Animal ID Survey Shows Concern for NAIS (10-13-05)

ID•INFO EXPO 2005 Provides Assessment on NAIS, Showcases Technology (10-3-05)

NIAA Comments on NAIS Thinking Paper (6-24-05)

NIAA CEO Conveys U.S. Commitment to Implement Animal Traceability System (4-20-05)

ID Panel Reports Positive Producer Acceptance; Issues Still to Be Addressed at Markets (4-11-05)

NIAA Annual Meeting Provides First-Hand Update on Animal Identification: 2009 given as goal for mandatory ID (4-11-05)

2004

Confidentiality and Data Housing Give Way to Funding, Producer Participation as NAIS' Major Concerns: NIAA Opinion Survey (11-8-04)

NIAA Encourages Producers, Stakeholders to Attend ID Listening Sessions (7-6-04)

NIAA ID•EXPO Provides Direction for Animal Identification (5-19-04)

NIAA Supports Veneman's Call for Immediate Implementation of National Animal ID System (1-30-04)

2002

National Food Animal Identification Task Force Established (6-4-02)

NIAA Publications

Confidentiality and National Animal Identification (March, News & Information for Animal Agriculture)

USDA's New Framework for Animal Disease Traceability Topic of NIAA Committee Meeting (March, News & Information for Animal Agriculture)

THE ID MANDATE:  Meeting Consumer and Government Demands (June, Animal Agriculture Quarterly)

AMS Encourages Program Participants to Use the NAIS (Summer, Animal Agriculture Quarterly)

ID•INFO Workshop Results in NAIS Business Plan Comment Document to USDA (Summer, Animal Agriculture Quarterly)

NAIS Opponent Challenges USDA (Fall, Animal Agriculture Quarterly)

Traceabiltity Requires Industry Participation (Winter, Animal Agriculture Quarterly)

USDA Asks Veterinarains for Help with NAIS (Winter, Animal Agriculture Quarterly)

Another Step Toward NAIS Success (Summer, Cattle Health Report, Equine Health Report, Sheep & Goat Health Report)

APHIS Lists 7 Strategies Being Developed for Business Plan (Fall/Winter, Animal Agriculture Quarterly, Cattle Health Report, Equine Health Report, Poultry Health Report, Sheep & Goat Health Report, Swine Health Report)

Brand New NAIS Working Group (Summer, Animal Agriculture Quarterly, Cattle Health Report)

Clifford Reports NAIS Progress to NIAA ID Committee (Summer, Animal Agriculture Quarterly, Cattle Health Report, Equine Health Report, Poultry Health Report, Sheep & Goat Health Report, Swine Health Report)

Dr. Clifford Announces NAIS Business Plan in the Making (Fall/Winter, Animal Agriculture Quarterly)

FFA to Assist with NAIS Implementation (Summer, Cattle Health Report, Equine Health Report, Sheep & Goat Health Report)

ID•INFO EXPO Survery:  Animal Disease Control 'Biggest Need,' U.S. Lagging Behind Other Countries (Fall/Winter, Animal Agriculture Quarterly, Swine Health Report)

Livestock Premises Registration:  It Works! (Summer, Equine Health Report)

NAIS a Valuable Tool During Blizzard Recovery (Spring, Cattle Health Report, Equine Health Report, Sheep & Goat Health Report)

NEW NAIS Report Highlights Lessons Learned 2004 Pilot Projects (Summer, Cattle Health Report, Equine Health Report, Swine Health Report)

NPB Expands Premises ID Efforts (Summer, Swine Health Report)

Pork Board, FFA Get USDA Premises Registration Grants (Summer, Animal Agriculture Quarterly)

Under Secretary Knight Underscores Importance of NAIS (Fall/Winter, Animal Agriculture Quarterly)

USDA Endorses International Standards for Animal ID Technologies (Spring, Equine Health Report, Sheep & Goat Health Report)

USDA/APHIS Clarifies ID Requirements of NAIS, NSEP, SFCP (Spring, Sheep & Goat Health Report)

Presentations

• Annual Conference

  • 2011 NIAA Annual Conference:  Consumers' Stake in Today's Food Production:  Meeting Growing Production Demands with Integrity

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      Animal Identification & Information Systems Council Session
         Animal Disease Traceability Update by USDA
         Neil Hammerschmidt, Program Manager, Animal Disease Traceability, USDA/APHIS/VS [Audio]
         Update on USDA Secretary's Advisory Committee on Animal Health
         Dr. Boyd Parr, State Veterinarian, Clemson University Livestock & Poultry Health [Audio]
         Panel Discussion: Manual Recording of Official ID Under USDA's Animal Disease Traceability Rule; Industry      Compatibility: How do we make this happen? (No presentations available)
            State Animal Health Official: Dr. Boyd Parr, State Veterinarian, Clemson University Livestock & Poultry Health
            Private Veterinarian: Dr. Dave Rethorst, American Association of Bovine Practitioners
            Data Management: Tom DeMuth, Manager of DHI Services, AgSource Cooperative Services
            Markets: Charles Rogers, Livestock Marketing Association
            Packers: Survey
         Uniform Interstate Certificate of Veterinary Inspection
         Kevin Maher, President, GlobalVetLink [Audio]
         Antiobiotic Residues and Traceability
         Dr. Katherine Ralston, Public Health Veterinarian/Enforcement Investigations Analysis Officer, USDA/FSIS [Audio]
         eyeD™
         David Knupp, Global Animal Management, Inc.
      Equine Committee Session
         Photographing the Equine's Iris as a Form of Identification
         David Knupp, President & CEO, Global Animal Management, Inc.
      Global Animal Health, Food Security & Trade Council Session
         Importance of Traceability in Protecting USA Export Trade
         Marcine Moldenhauer, MEAT LINK Management, LLC
         Traceability and ID Systems Developing in USA Export Trade Competitors and Customers
         Brian Bolton, President & CEO, Allflex USA
    
    

  • 2010 NIAA Annual Meeting:  ONE HEALTH: Implications for Animal Agriculture

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      Animal Identification & Information Systems Committee Session
         The Critical Traceability Needs for the Future Tuberculosis and Brucellosis Programs: What happens when today's      tools do away?
         Dr. Richard Breitmeyer, State Veterinarian, California Department of Food and Agriculture, President, United States Animal      Health Association [Audio]
         One Health: A multi-species perspective from an animal disease and food safety laboratory
         Dr. Anette Rink, Nevada Department of Agriculture [Audio]
         The Future of Traceability in USDA's Animal Health Programs (No presentation available)
         Edward M. Avalos, Under Secretary, USDA Marketing and Regulatory Programs and Veterinary Services and Dr. John      Clifford, Chief Veterinarian, USDA
         Panel Discussion: Animal Agriculture Industry Input on New Framework for Animal Traceability
         Industry representatives from various species and segments of animal agriculture will discuss questions and provide      input to USDA respresentatives on the new direction of animal identification.
            Beef: Kelli Ludlum, American Farm Bureau Federation
            Dairy: Dr. Karen Jordan, Dairy Farmers of America (No presentation available)
            Equine: Dudley Hoskins, American Horse Council (No presentation available)
            Sheep & Goats: Dr. Cindy Wolf, University of Minnesota (No presentation available)
            Swine: Dr. Patrick Webb, National Pork Board (No presentation available)
            Livestock Markets: Jim Reynolds, National Livestock Commission Association (No presentation available)
            Processing: Scott Goltry, American Meat Institute (No presentation available)
    
    

  • 2009 NIAA Annual Meeting:  The Changing Face of Animal Agriculture

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      Animal Identification & Information Systems Committee Session
          Welcome and Introduction
          Glenn Fischer and Victor Velez, Animal Identification and Information Systems Chair and Vice Chair
        Animal Identification
          USDA ID Overview:  Convergence of NAIS, COOL, marketing and food safety in the new administration
          Dr. Thomas J. Myers, USDA/APHIS/VS
          USDA Business Plan Update
          Dr. John Wiemers, USDA/APHIS/VS
          USDA Information Systems-Infrastructure Update
          John Picanso, USDA/APHIS/VS
        Traceability and Current Equine CEM Issue Update
          Canadian Traceability Initiative:  Trace R&D 2009 Conference
          Eric Aubin, Canadian Food Inspection Agency
          CEM Update
          Dr. Sue Billings, Kentucky Department of Agriculture
          Animal ID Standards:  ASTM development of performance standards
          Bryan Rickard, Kansas Board of Animal Health
          Evolution of Ultra High Frequency RFID Technologies
          Panel Discussion:  Dan Ellsworth, Destron Fearing, Niels Fogt, Southfork Solutions, and Doran Junek, Eriginate
    
    

• 2008 NIAA Annual Meeting: Animal Care and Well-Being: Facts NOT Fiction

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    Animal Identification & Information Systems Committee Session
        USDA Business Plan Update
        Neil Hammerschmidt, USDA/APHIS/VS [Audio]
        Species Group Updates:
          Equine Species Working Group Update
          Kerry Thompson, American Horse Council [Audio]
          Tissue Reactions to Microchip Implantation in Laboratory Animals and Pets
          Dr. Lawrence D. McGill, American College of Veterinary Pathologists [Audio]
          Beef Cattle (No presentation available)
          Dr. Ashby Green, National Cattlemen's Beef Association [Audio]
          Dairy Cattle
          Dr. Jamie S. Jonker, National Milk Producers Federation [Audio]
          Swine
          Dr. Patrick Webb, National Pork Board [Audio]
          Sheep
          Dr. Cindy Wolf, University of Minnesota [Audio]
          Goats (No Presentation Available)
          Marvin F. Shurley, American Meat Goat Association [Audio]
        State Activities:
          California Tuberculosis Update
          Dr. Annette Whiteford, California Department of Food & Agriculture
          Wisconsin Program Update
          Dr. Robert Fourdraine, Wisconsin Livestock Identification Consortium [Audio]
          Michigan Implementation of Mandatory RFID
          Kevin Kirk, Michigan Department of Agriculture [Audio]
          Iowa Premises Registration Program (No presentation available)
          Dr. David Schmitt, Iowa Department of Agriculture & Land Stewardship [Audio]
  
  

• 2007 Annual Meeting:  BioFuels Energy:  Animal Agriculture at the Crossroads

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    Equine ID Subcommittee Session
      The Role of Individual Equine ID in Animal Health
        NAIS Equine Species Working Group August 2006 Recommendations
  
  • APHIS Endorsement of ISO Compliant RFID, AQHA on EVA
    J. Amelita Facchiano, Chair
      Practical Applications – Disease Control
        Contagious Equine Metritis (CEM) Program Update
        Dr. Lee Ann Thomas, USDA, APHIS, Veterinary Services
        Equine Herpesviris-1 (EVA-1)
        Dr. Kent Fowler, California Department of Food and Agriculture, Chief Animal Health Branch
        Equine ID and New Mexico Project / Viral Arteritis (EVA)
        Dr. David E. Fly, New Mexico Livestock Board
        Equine Piroplasmosis (EP)
        Dr. Kent Fowler, California Department of Food and Agriculture, Chief Animal Health Branch
        California Equine ID Project
        Dr. John Evans, California Department of Food and Agriculture
        NAHMS 2005 Equine Study
        Dr. Josie Traub-Dargatz, Colorado State University and USDA, APHIS, VS, Centers for Epidemiology and Animal Health
        Pilot Projects and Data Base Issues
        Rick Stott, Agri Beef Company
    Animal Identification & Information Systems Committee Session
        Animal ID - The Michigan Experience
        Kevin Kirk, Michigan Department of Agriculture
        Integration Between NAIS and Existing Animal Health Programs
        Dr. Charlie Hatcher, American Association Bovine Practitioners
        Industry Participation Implementing NAIS
  • Pork Industry Cooperative Agreement with USDA
    Dr. Patrick Webb, National Pork Board
        Update from Equine ID Subcommittee
        J. Amelita Facchiano, Subcommittee Chair

• ID•INFO EXPO

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  • 2009 (Kansas City)
  • 2008 (Workshop — Indianapolis)
  • 2007 (Kansas City)
  • 2006 (Kansas City)
  • 2005 (Chicago)
  • 2004 (Chicago)
  • 2002 (Chicago)
  • 1998 (National Farm Animal Identification Symposium — St. Louis)
  • 1994 (National Livestock Identification Symposium — St. Louis)

• Animal Identification & Information Systems
• Equine:  Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Requirement for Imported Horses
• Sheep & Goat:  Official Sheep and Goat Identification

• Animal Agriculture and Identification: Historical Significance (Prepared by NIAA for U.S. Veterinarain 2005)
• Animal Identification:  Overview and Issues (Congressional Research Service)
• NAIS Facts and Myths
• "National ID:  It's all about market success"
• USAIP Handout

• AAEP:  Equine ID
• Equine Species Working Group (ESWG)
• EVA Report Form
• COOL
• NAHMS:  Equine 2005 Study
  • Equine ID and Familiarity with NAIS
• NAIS Updated User Guide (November 2006)
• National Animal Identification System (NAIS)
• Stakeholder Announcement:  USDA Endorses Industry-Recommended International Standards for Animal Identification Technologies
• USDA Animal Identification Program
• Western Extension Marketing Committee ID Resources