Digital Angel wins 140,000 tag order for Peru’s official cattle ID program
08 October, 2010
category: RFID
Digital Angel Corporation announced that its subsidiary Destron Fearing has won a bid to supply the Servicio Nacional de Sanidade Agraria (SENASA), an agency with the Agricultural Ministry of Peru, with electronic identification equipment for the country’s official cattle ID program.
The initial order includes more than 140,000 electronic identification tags, with SENASA agreeing to purchase additional identification tags as well as Destron Fearing applicators and DTR4 hand held readers as part of the nation’s official cattle identification program.
Destron Fearing will customize combination RFID panel tags and RFID button tags with Peru’s official country code and will program specific sequence numbers for the different geographical areas of the country.
The DTR4 hand held reader stores over 2,000 individual numbers and can verify individual animals within a pre-loaded list that is International Committee for Animal Recording (ICAR) approved, FCC approved, and meets SENASA market specifications.