Thursday, 16 October 2008

Separating the Sheep Fom The Goats

We do quite a bit of work with various animal tagging applications for RFID so I tend to keep an eye on what's going on with regard to regulations that require electronic tagging for animals.

DEFRA are currently implementing (after much procrastination) EU legislation on its use for sheep and goats. Except that it's not for goats.

Why not?

Apparently we don't have enough goats. The EU doesn't think its worth bothering if there are fewer than 160,000 goats and that (allegedly) is more than we have.

So, no chance of traceability for the contents of your goat curry.

(these posts have been a bit foodie this week).

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