Enhance animal disease traceability in iowa

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025), is intended to enhance animal disease traceability in Iowa. The $230,998.00 award will support the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship (IDALS) in promoting the use of radiofrequency identification (RFID) devices and electronic interstate certificates of veterinary inspection (ICVI). IDALS will provide free RFID tags to accredited veterinarians, RFID readers to livestock market veterinarians, and demonstrate the advantages of electronic ICVI to help improve overall animal disease traceability capabilities in the state. The award also enables IDALS to develop a centralized software system for storing and efficiently retrieving movement, identification, and trace information. The project period runs from Apr 1, 2025 to Mar 31, 2026.

The cooperator will promote the use of radiofrequency identification devices (rfid) by providing free rfid tags to accredited veterinarians and by providing rfid readers to veterinarians who work in livestock markets. The cooperator will promote the use of electronic interstate certificates of veterinary inspection (icvi) by demonstrating the advantages of this tool to accredited veterinarians. The cooperator will demonstrate their ability to meet trace performance measures (TPM). The cooperator will take enforcement action when violations of animal disease traceability regulations are found. The cooperator has negotiated a contract with a company for a software system that will allow for centralized storage of movement documents that allows for efficient retrieval of movement, ID, and trace information. Idals will continue to work with USDA to provide rfid tags to veterinarians and promote the use of these tags to producers and veterinarians. Iowa has conducted and will continue to conduct tabletop and training exercises in the areas of FAD, ADT, BR, TB and others.