Hawai`i Animal Disease Traceability Program
Updated August 2011
The Animal Disease Traceability Framework continues to evolve as a means of protecting the overall health of livestock animals within the United States. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) continues to shape the framework along four guiding principles:
Uniformity: system will support the needs of official animal disease monitoring, control and eradication programs and interstate animal movement. This does not mean the states need to be identical, only that the information is compatible during an animal disease investigation between states.
National flexibility, local responsibility: USDA will implement a flexible, coordinated approach to animal disease investigations that builds upon the strength and expertise all ready existing within the states.
Focus on Interstate Movement: At the Federal level the focus will be on animals crossing state lines and have the greatest impact on spreading animal diseases nationally.
Common Sense and Cost Effective: Build upon traditional animal identification methods used in disease eradication programs while maintaining flexibility for producers to use technology based identification methods such as radio frequency ear tags.
The Hawai`i Department of Agriculture's Animal Industry Division continues work with the USDA as the Animal Disease Traceability framework develops. Resolving an animal disease outbreak continues to be the primary goal of any disease outbreak response. To keep update on the changes in the USDA Animal Disease Framework please visit the USDA at –
www.aphis.usda.gov/traceability
If you would like to obtain a Premises Identification Number (PIN) through the USDA National registry – please contact:
Hawai`i Animal Premises Identification System
Animal Industry Division
99-941 Halawa Valley Street
Aiea, HI 96701
Phone (808) 483-7100 Fax: (808) 483-7110
