Dr. Ron DeHaven, AVMA CEO, on NAIS

The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) has recently testified before Congress about the National Animal Identification System (NAIS), a system that, once fully implemented, will allow diseased animals to be traced during a livestock disease outbreak. Dr. Ron Dehaven, chief executive officer of the AVMA, explains that only about a third of farms and facilities have been registered in this new system, and as a result NAIS can’t function as it was intended. That’s why the AVMA supports making the NAIS mandatory.

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