MRP-APHIS-Animal Disease Traceability Information System (ADTIS)

As a result of ADTIS [formerly NAIS], the Federal and State governments savings in connection with the administration of animal disease control and eradication programs are significant, but they are only part of the overall benefits. Economic benefits in both the domestic and international marketplace resulting from enhanced traceability may be greater than the cost savings realized during animal disease control and eradication efforts. For industry, the effect of not implementing some aspects of ADTIS may result in significant losses as great as $1.32 billion on average per year over a 10-year period due mostly to reduced export market access. Implementation of ADTIS becomes more cost effective as participation levels increase and actually may not be economically viable at lower participation levels. The cattle industry cost represents 91.5 percent of the total cost of ADTIS for the primary food animal species (cattle, sheep, swine, and poultry). Identification tags and tagging cattle represent 75 percent of the cattle sectors annual adoption cost. Tags and tagging costs vary among cattle producers with 50 head from $3.30 to $5.22 per cow, depending on current identification practices. The total cost for implementing ADTIS in the cattle sector as described in the study is $175.9 million annually (at a 90 percent participation level). Although significant, the cost is less than one-half of a percent of the retail value of U.S. beef products. The swine and poultry industries each have a lower cost because animal tracing requirements for these species require less infrastructure and often no individual identification devices. The APHIS 2019 Impact Report states that the use of the ADTIS system increased the agency's ability to electronically collect data for the national animal disease tracing system, using mobile technology to speed the import of approximately 194,841 cattle from Canada.

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