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NATIONAL ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION
SYSTEM UPDATE
October 30, 2007
On October 18, 2007, the U.S.
Department of Agriculture released a new 68-page document
entitled “A Business Plan to Advance Animal Disease
Traceability.” Actually, it is a discussion draft business
plan that sets out 7 strategies to advance traceability. It
is intended to supplement the 74-page NAIS Draft User Guide
which was issued last year. The User Guide remains the
primary document that explains how producers (livestock
owners and breeders) can participate in NAIS should they
choose to do so. USDA is updating the User Guide and intends
to re-publish it in December 2007.
Before the draft business plan is
published or posted on the NAIS website, it is being shared
with the individual species working groups, such as the Goat
Working Group, for a preview. USDA intends to publish a
revised draft of the plan in early December for broad review
and comment.
Attached to this report is the
Table of Contents, and a three-page Executive Summary of
the plan just released by USDA. If after reading the
Executive Summary, you would like to obtain a copy of the
whole Business Plan, just email me at rhoyt@charter.net and
I will email it to you. Also, if a copy of the current User
Guide is desired, email me for that document as well.
Ray Hoyt
NPGA President
NAIS Coordinator
NPGA HER Committee Member
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