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"COOL Will be Implemented During 2008
05/12/2008


By the end of this year shoppers will learn where the meat they wish to purchase comes from by checking its the Country-of-Origin label. Under Secretary of Agriculture Bruce Knight, confirms USDA will implement Country-of-Origin labeling yet this year. Under the business plan set by the National Animal Identification System, each animal‘s 15 digit identification number begins with three digits that identify its country or origin. If the first three numbers are 840, consumers will know the meat they are purchasing is from the United States.

Bruce Knight says the technology of tracking identification numbers in the proposed National Animal Identification System may be beneficial to COOL. He says, because of COOL there is going to be folks in the marketplace looking for where does this animal come from. Knight says - animals don’t need any more identification papers; don‘t need anything more than what is currently in that animal‘s ear."
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