NEWS> [NetGold] SCIENCE: NEWS: Mad Cow Scare May Spur High-Tech Tracking

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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 06:59:47 -0500 (EST)
From: David P. Dillard <jwne@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [NetGold] SCIENCE: NEWS: Mad Cow Scare May Spur High-Tech Tracking

SCIENCE: NEWS: Mad Cow Scare May Spur High-Tech Tracking

Mad Cow Scare May Spur High-Tech Tracking
eWEEK
By Brian Bergstein, AP Technology Writer
December 31, 2003
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1424606,00.asp?kc=EWNWS123103DTX1K0000599>

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"If there's a bright side to the U.S. mad cow scare, it's that it could
speed the nation's move to a centralized system that electronically tracks
animals as they move from fields to feed lots to food stores.

Efforts to create a centralized database, which exist in some countries,
have been slowed so far by disputes over who would maintain the database
and who would bear its cost.

Such a database could let agricultural officials determine within hours
where a sick animal came from and where it wenta crucial step in a disease
outbreak or a terrorist assault on the food supply.

Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman said Tuesday that the government would
speed development of the system, but offered no details.

For now, inspectors often must rely on paper records or a hodgepodge of
data maintained by meat producers and breeders. After the recent mad cow
discovery in Washington state, officials needed several days to determine
where its meat had been sold, and encountered discrepancies in U.S. and
Canadian records."

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