Livestock traceability underpins our ability to sell 70 percent of what we produce into the international market every day.
It’s also the system that will be critical to our ability to respond and recover from any outbreak of Foot & Mouth Disease (FMD) or Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD).
John McKillop
However, reforming this system has repeatedly been the poor cousin of competing priorities, making progress very hard.
While the recent public focus on the risk of a FMD or LSD outbreak has understandably lost much of its intensity, the threat itself remains.
This leaves the red meat and…
