The U.S. Department of Agriculture's animal identification plan has been put on the fast track for review by the White House. The national identification system is designed to allow government health officials to locate the farms from which sick animals originated so that they can identify and quarantine other potentially infected animals.
The plan's review has been expedited in light of the recent case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy ("mad cow" disease) that was identified in California. The animal identification program would require both dairy farmers and beef cattle farmers to tag and register cattle moved from one state to another.
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