Animal Disease Traceability In Colorado - State Veterinarian Panel Discussion - Dr. Keith Roehr, State Veterinarian, Colorado Department of Agriculture, from the NIAA 2018 Strategy Forum on Livestock Traceability, September 25 - 26, 2018, Kansas City, MO, USA. More presentations at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeUDeS810OcOfuEYwj1oHKQ

1. 
NIAA
2018 Strategy Forum on
Livestock Traceability
Animal Disease Traceability in
Colorado
Keith A. Roehr, DVM
Colorado Department of Agriculture

2. 
Which Black Heifer has TB?

3. 
What data is needed for
livestock tracing?
 Premises or location information
 Certificates of Veterinary
Inspection –Interstate movement
 Brand Inspection information –
sales transaction, ownership
 Diagnostic testing

4. 
Paper or Image Based
Epidemiology Tracing
 Traceability takes
hours, days, weeks,
months...
 Sometimes traces
cannot be finished.
Difficult to search
for a single animal
ID number.

5. 
Big Picture of Electronic Data
NWSS 2016 Livestock Movements

6. 
South Dakota/Colorado TB Traces
2017

7. 
RFID and Electronic
Documentation
 2015 Colorado TB trace-in
with GVL and RFID took
12 minutes. (Dairy)
 2017 Colorado TB trace in
with NEUS tags, brands
and 1 paper CVI took 6
months. (Beef)
 The difference between a
slow burn disease (TB)
and a fast burn disease
(FMD) does not allow for
the delays of paper.
UHF RFID tags in both ears

8. 
How did regulatory
medicine work?
 Program diseases,
TB, Brucellosis,
EIA etc.
How does regulatory
medicine work today?
 Real time response
tools to manage
livestock business
and health

9. 
EIA Investigation
EIA form from USALIMS App
Picture from Go Fund Me page

10. 
Equine Infectious Anemia
Colorado Disease Investigation

11. 
 “Producers do traceability on their
operations every day, managing animals
daily by health papers, bill of sales, brand
inspections, herd tags and lot loads. There's
more to the animal ID discussion than simply
directing producers to tag livestock. We need
to move beyond ear tags and talk about
traceability in terms of accurate disease
tracebacks, effective recordkeeping and
efficient and affordable technology.”
What can producers do?

12. 
Hurdles Remain
 Using individual ID for
management and for official
ID Disease Traceability
 Transitioning away from
paper and pen, and away
from NUES tags
 Official ID at birth premises
and tag retirement
 Electronic transmission and
sharing of data (not images)
for “real time traceability”

13. 
That’s All Folks
Questions or
Comments???