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Traceback Compliance and Management
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Where did this animal come from?
Who owned it?
What other animals was it around?
What did this animal eat?
What ingredients were in the animal’s ration?
How was this animal’s feed manufactured and delivered?
Was it ever sick?
What health regimes were administered to this animal?
Is the meat from this animal free of antibiotic residues?
Is there an audit trail?

These are just some of the questions that the public and government health officials are asking beef producers. “Do I have answers for them?” will be the question producers will be asking themselves. With Micro Beef Technologies management and traceback systems, you’ll know the answers to these questions and more. In addition, the MBT technologies that give beef producers these answers also give them production efficiencies that increase their profitability.

Micro Beef Technologies can help beef production entities meet regulatory requirements — whether for national animal identification and tracking, health assurance, or feed safety protocols — while creating new efficiencies and profit-making opportunities for them. So producers can profit while adhering to regulatory compliance. Beef producers can implement a complete food safety system technology program for live animals today or they can begin with individual, stand-alone pieces as they grow towards that objective. Individual animal tracking and management is only a starting point.

Beef traceability objectives will require individual animal tracking. Individual animal tracking opens the door to individual animal management which offers producers new profitability options. Individual animal management strategies optimize beef profitability by reducing production and performance inefficiencies while creating increased value and additional marketing opportunities. In the process, critical production control point accountability is achieved enabling both tighter efficiencies as well as food safety practices compliance. Tracking creates benchmarking opportunities against which performance, production efficiencies, and marketing results can be compared and analyzed. From here, the individual animal management possibilities are endless with the systems from Micro Beef Technologies. The following are some of the food safety system control points and individual animal management benefits afforded by Micro Beef Technologies to each segment of the beef production chain:

Cow Calf

  • Individual animal electronic identification (RFID)
  • Individual animal traceback/traceforward
  • Compliance verification
  • Source verification
  • Process validation
  • Program certification
  • Vac 45 programs
  • Health assurance products
  • Health treatment verification
  • Genetic improvement
  • Specification cattle
  • Electronic individual animal performance profiles
  • Seamless information integration and transfer

Stocker

  • Individual animal electronic identification (RFID)
  • Individual animal traceback/traceforward
  • Compliance verification
  • Source verification
  • Process validation
  • Program certification
  • Vac 45 post weaning/ preconditioning
  • Health assurance products
  • Health treatment verification
  • Specification cattle
  • Electronic individual animal performance profiles
  • Seamless information integration and transfer

Feeder

  • Individual animal electronic identification (RFID)
  • Individual animal traceback/traceforward
  • Animal welfare oriented facilities design
  • Low-stress animal handling facilities and methods
  • Computerized animal location sensors
  • Compliance verification
  • Source verification
  • Process validation
  • Program certification
  • Inventory classification
  • Cattle diversity management
  • Individual animal, optimum end-point marketing
  • Quality assurance
  • Health assurance products
  • Health treatment verification
  • Automated drug residue prevention
  • Individual treatment histories
  • Feed safety assurance
  • Feed production and distribution control
  • Feed ingredient source verification
  • Automatic pen identification
  • GPS animal location mapping
  • Carcass quality enhancement
  • Vitamins E & D certification
  • Terminal feeding program management and certification
  • Carcass management & production to retail specifications
  • Multiple grid alternatives
  • Information system analysis & reporting
  • Electronic individual animal performance profiles
  • Seamless information integration and transfer

Packer

  • Individual animal/carcass electronic identification (RFID)
  • Individual animal/carcass traceback/traceforward
  • Individual animal records tracking
  • Individual ID to carcass ID linking
  • Inventory classification with carcass valuation technology
  • Individual measurement/projection validation
  • Carcass value/grid performance reporting
  • Individual animal/carcass data reconciliation
  • Electronic individual animal performance profiles
  • Seamless information integration and transfer

Retailer

Increased beef value to meet consumer demand through:

  • Specification production
  • Compliance verification
  • Source verification
  • Process validation
  • Program certification
  • Quality assurance/Quality control
  • Increased tenderness
  • Better quality & consistency
  • Extended shelf-life
  • Improved eating experience

To learn more about the systems from Micro Beef Technologies that yield these benefits, click on the ACCU-TRAC® or Beef Management Technologies buttons to the left.