Tönnies Livestock’s RFID technology is tracking the life cycles of about 100,000 pigs from birth to slaughter, to identify their health and treatments as they are born, fattened and butchered, thereby creating a health identification for each animal and providing analytics for farmers so they can adjust their methods.
Jan 31, 2017—
Radio frequency identification provides an opportunity for the food industry to better monitor the health of animals and the storage of meat before it is provided to consumers. With that in mind, German food industry company Tönnies Livestock’s business group has developed an ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) system for tracking pigs using a passive RFID-enabled ear tag and readers, as well as its own software to manage the collected data.
Source: Food Company Pilots UHF RFID to Enhance Pig Life History – Page 1 – RFID Journal