Links

• VeriPrime.org

• In bringing all segments of the food supply industry together VeriPrime has formed a federation of cooperatives and has developed a supply chain traceability standard that enables producers and businesses, large and small, to meet official and marketplace standards in the most efficient, least costly way.
  
  Ams.usda.gov

• The Agricultural Marketing Service includes six commodity programs--Cotton, Dairy, Fruit and Vegetable, Livestock and Seed, Poultry, and Tobacco. The programs employ specialists who provide standardization, grading and market news services for those commodities. They enforce such Federal Laws as the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act and the Federal Seed Act.

• NAIS

• National Animal Identification System (NAIS) is a cooperative State-Federal-industry partnership to standardize and expand animal identification programs and practices to all livestock species and poultry. NAIS is being developed through the integration of three components—premises identification, animal identification, and animal tracking. The long-term goal of the NAIS is to provide animal health officials with the capability to identify all livestock and premises that have had direct contact with a disease of concern within 48 hours after discovery.