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NLIS chief tight-lipped on US licensing deal

Friday, 28/10/2005

Australia is closer to signing a licensing deal with the United States to use our National Livestock Identification System (NLIS).

It is a lucrative market because about 26 million cattle are slaughtered there each year.

Rick Beasley, the head of NLIS at Meat and Livestock Australia, will not confirm how close Australia is to securing a deal.

"We had approaches from quite a number of countries recently to look at whether the core system here can be licensed, improved, modified, whatever, to suit their requirements," he said.

"Obviously their requirements are obviously going to be a lot different to ours.

"But the basics of traceablility remain the same around the world.

"You want to know where the animal's born, where it's lived through its lifetime, what risk status it has and when it's ultimately slaughtered - the core system is the same around the world."
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