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You must notify the selling agent who will be acting on your behalf. This will ensure full transparency through the selling process and allow any potential food safety or biosecurity risk to be managed.

A guide to record keeping

As spring marking season approaches, increased pain relief products become available and biosecurity threats converge, livestock producers accredited through Livestock Production Assurance (LPA) are being urged to brush up on their knowledge of safe and responsible administration of animal treatments and record keeping.

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An individual animal is given a ‘device-based status’ against its NLIS tag or bolus when it has a known disease or residue issue that presents a food safety or biosecurity risk and requires specific management on-farm, or at feedlots, saleyards and processors. Depending on the risk, the status is assigned by the Commonwealth or State Department, a vet or the Integrity System Company via the NLIS database. The producer is then informed. These device-based statuses automatically trigger an EW status on the PIC where the animal resides in the NLIS database. The device-based statuses that trigger the EW status are:...

Find out how to manage your records for LPA accreditation online.

If you’re new to owning livestock or only have a handful of cattle, sheep or goats on your property, this webinar is for you! Join Integrity Systems Company for a high-level overview of property identification codes (PIC), biosecurity requirements, livestock movements, and ISC and state department requirements. This webinar is relevant to hobby farmers and small landholders across Australia.  Thursday 21st May, 7pm AEST 

A map of the property identifying any contamination risks. It can also be used to for biosecurity risk management. The location of old batteries, old dip sites, farm rubbish tips, old painted timbers, commercial painted surfaces, machinery, chemical storage or disposal areas, land treated with recycled water and land which shares a boundary with public land (e.g., roadways. railways. state forest. national park) should be highlighted on the map. This will ensure a livestock producer is doing all they can to prevent livestock becoming contaminated and ensure the resulting meat they produce is safe to eat.

It is critical that any agvet chemicals are stored appropriately, are not out of date when used, and are administered in the correct dose.    Chemical contamination, degredation or failure can result in a range of negative impacts, including:  livestock pain or death livestock illness, which impacts red meat integrity human illness and food safety risks profit and production losses property damage, and  disease transmission or biosecurity breaches which threaten global market access.  REMEMBER: Chemicals must be used safely and carefully as misuse can result in contamination. Completing a ChemCERT or equivalent training course is an effective way to ensure...

The EW status helps monitor and manage food safety and biosecurity risk along the entire supply chain. It gives livestock buyers and agents a heads up around potential risk by flagging that the PIC may have high risk animals (ie chemical residue or disease) associated with it. The buyer or agent is then able to contact the vendor and seek more information about whether a high-risk animal is in a consignment.