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NCBA opposes mandatory disease traceability expansion
Apr 13, 2017, 17:16 PM
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The nation’s largest cattle producer organization is opposed to mandatory compliance for the USDA Animal Disease Traceability program but they support the USDA’s efforts to reach out to producers.
Colin Woodall is Vice President of Government Affairs for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association.
“We are against a mandatory animal identification system. But we have worked very close with [USDA] on phase one of animal disease traceability and before they move to phase two, or at least start considering moving to phase two there’s a lot more information that we as an industry need to know,” says Woodall.
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