Colombia prepares to launch bovine traceability system in the Caribbean

The national government is close to defining the start of the bovine traceability system, a fundamental requirement to access demanding international markets. It will begin with a pilot in the “trade zone”, which includes the departments of Atlántico, Córdoba, Magdalena, Sucre and parts of the departments of Antioquia, Bolívar and Chocó. Augusto Beltrán Segrera, technical secretary of the Price Stabilization Fund (FEP) of the Colombian Federation of Cattle Ranchers (Fedegán), explained that traceability is a mandatory requirement for all cattle and must be applied from birth to slaughter in slaughterhouses. “Traceability will be a mandatory process that each producer must initiate. They must identify their cattle from the moment of the animal's birth and throughout its life in its natural evolution until it is slaughtered at the slaughterhouse,” he said. Animal traceability is an identification and monitoring system that allows the history of each cattle to be recorded and ...