| Canadian Cattle will be leaping a little into the | | | | had allowed cattle producers time to change from |
| future shortly. Cattle producers in Canada will | | | | visual ear tags to RFID ear tags. |
| have to tag all of their calves and cattle with | | | | The Canadian Cattle Identification Agency has six |
| Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) ear tags. | | | | approved RFID tags to be used in their Canadian |
| The Canadian Cattle Identification Agency (CCIA) | | | | Livestock Tracking System, which enables the |
| has set a date of July 1st. 2010 as the day that | | | | trace back of animals during a disease outbreak, |
| all Canadian cattle must be tagged with a CCIA | | | | such as Mad Cow disease. |
| Approved RFID ear tag. Visual ear tags will no | | | | Radio Frequency Identification is proving more and |
| longer be used in the Canadian Livestock Tracking | | | | more to be a reliable, stable, and secure form of |
| System (CLTS) for their national animal | | | | identification for livestock. One of the main |
| traceability system. | | | | benefits of RFID is the speed you could read |
| July 1st. is also Canada Day; so on Canada's | | | | head of cattle through a race way alley, and also |
| birthday Canadian cattle go techno with RFID. | | | | the fact that RFID tags are error free in |
| The Canadian Food and Inspection Agency (CFIA) | | | | identification. |
| will be enforcing the new mandatory regulation for | | | | Canada, along with Australia, the UK, and Uruguay |
| livestock. Canada had made tagging cattle with | | | | are among the leading countries in the world for |
| RFID ear tags mandatory since September 2006, | | | | animal traceability systems, which are RFID based |
| for all cattle leaving its farm of origin. The CCIA | | | | systems. |