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China implements ID chips for pork traceability 24 Nov 2009
Southwest China recently began putting two identity chips on the back legs of pigs detailing where they were butchered, examined and sold.
In Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province, forty-five markets started to sell pork with ID chips, said a spokesman with the city's food and drug administration.
Before a pig is sold to a slaughterhouse, two plastic rings containing the chips with information on where the pig was bred are fixed around the pig's legs. As the pig gets slaughtered, inspected and sold to market, additional information is added to the chips
When each piece of pork is sold, the chip is scanned so that consumers have a receipt with a code that links to the record of the slaughter, inspection and sale of the pork in a city database.
The system also helps prevent pork being sold from illegal channels. As each retailer scans the chip of meat they purchase, the system logs how much pork they have in stock. Additionally, their electronic scales are linked to the market system to keep track of how much pork they sell. The amount of pork sold must not exceed that of pork purchased.
Consumers can check on their pork purchases by phone, text message or on the administration's website to ensure it was safely bred, butchered, stored and transported as well as properly examined.
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