Livestock tagging attracts interest in China, Taiwan, Malaysia and Thailand
Following new outbreaks of BSE and Avian influenza and the resultant increased interest in safety programmes to protect the food supply, US-based Advanced ID Corporation has been in talks with representatives in several Asian countries to provide products for livestock tagging trials.
The company, which has developed a complete UHF RFID product line for tagging and tracing cattle, sheep, pigs and birds, has run trials of its product for over two years in several countries where mandates and the private sector are working towards legislation.
The company’s livestock tagging trial in the Hunan Province in China includes tagging pigs where the market potential is 500 million head, triple the market of any other nation; the trial in Taiwan includes tagging both cattle and pigs where the combined market is 66 million animals; the trial in Malaysia includes tagging cattle where beef consumption is surging; and, in renewed discussions with Thailand, Advanced ID is now working with Thai government officials to renew the tagging project which had been disrupted due to the unstable political situation in the country.
