Final Report Identification of Cattle and Beef Through Production and Marketing Channels

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  • Bryce Malone
چکیده

Executive Summary Traceability of cattle through live animal production, meat processing, and product distribution stages may be important for providing information on food safety or prohibited substance concerns, country of origin labeling for beef, and improvements in genetic and environmental practices to improve economic efficiencies and product traits. This study used cattle from commercial and university sources to demonstrate the effectiveness of electronic identification devices (EID) in identifying individual cattle and their subsequent primal beef cuts from calf production to processor distribution center and to identify specific places in the beef marketing system for potential identity loss or identity data transfer difficulties. Three groups of cattle totaling 677 head were tagged with EID devices and followed through feedlot and carcass evaluation channels. Individual cattle could be traced from farm or ranch of origin to the carcass fabrication line using EID technologies with minimal difficulties and existing technology, but it was learned that feedlots and packing plants do not routinely use EID methods for cattle identification. Most of the carcass data was received with an identifying EID number, indicating that the EID number accompanied the individual carcass to the point of quality and yield grading in most processing plants. The transfer of information from the carcass to individual primal and retail cuts does not occur at the present time and is a difficult step in the traceability process. Meat processing plants routinely label boxes of primal and retail cuts that allow tracing back to a daily production lot or group. Identification of individual cattle through production and beef processing and distribution is feasible with several commercial systems, but there appear to be insufficient economic incentives for development and investment in more efficient and effective data handling and identification transfer systems for the cattle industry.

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تاریخ انتشار 2002