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 News Item (Source/Date Posted on Source)

Food safety program set for auditor training (MeatNews/ 5/29)

Nationwide Young Chicken Baseline Data Collection Program to Begin (American Meat Institute/ 5/29)

Ingredients for cheap? (Food Production Daily/ 5/07)

Animal identification system will work (MeatNews.com/ 5/07)

Australia to run traceability exercise (MeatNews.com/ 4/27)

Thermometer assists tracing in supply chain (Food Production Daily/ 3/28)

Cargill introduces tracking system (MeatNews.com/ 3/27)

German project to create meat analysis RFID (FoodProductionDaily.com / 1/8)

Plan for Tracking Animals Meets Farmers’ Resistance (New York Times / 12/8)

Nation’s animal ID system goes voluntary (Georgia FACES / 11/30)

Summary Report of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Initial Test of the Accuracy of the Emergency Contact/U.S. Agent Data in the Food Facilities Registration Database (FDA / 10/12)

New Titles Focus on Food Safety: Fresh Produce and Tracking Contamination (American Society for Microbiology / 10/12)

New York State Makes Strides In National Animal Identification System (Meat and Poultry Online News / 7/19)

UNITED STATES: USAIO clears several technical and procedural hurdles in developing a national livestock movement database. (MeatNews.com / 5/26)

Electronic Tagging of Cattle to Prevent Disease Outbreaks Tested (NewsWise.com / 5/14)

AUSTRALIA: A McDonald’s executive tells world meat processing leaders that cattle traceability programs are essential for food safety. (MeatNews.com / 5/2)

JOHANNS RELEASES NATIONAL ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION PLAN (USDA / 4/6)

Out of Consumers' Sight, Radio Tags Gain Ground (New York Times / 4/4)

Tracking food products from farm to the fork (Information Society Technologies / 2/7)

UNITED STATES: New group to manage animal identification movement database. (MeatNews.com / 1/12)

Hologram system provides method for food safety, authenticity (FoodProductionDaily.com / 11/17)