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Re: [RC] [RC] Illinois Permit numbers - tprevatt

When I get a coggins done, my vet sends the sample to the lab and goes on the 
Global vet link site and opens a record which is sent to the lab. The lab is 
notified and when it arrives they test and fill out the rest of the record with 
the "negative" and digitially sign. My vet is now notified and this info goes 
back into the record for my horse. This record includes three color photographs 
of my horse (both sides and head on) plus descriptions of markings. Other 
identification info (brands, chips, etc.) can be put in the database. 

Once all this is done, my vet digitally signs it and this becomes my coggins. 
It is printed and it contains all the data, pictures pulse a record number. 
When I go to the Ag station, they pull up the same record to insure my 
paperwork matches the record and it all matches my horse. 

For a health certificate - my vet includes the coggins data and the coggins 
prictures and he digitally signs it and emails it to me. I print it and this is 
my health certificate. Again the officer at the FL ag station can pull the 
record up and make all the comparisons.  Eventualy when the system is nation 
wide and the USDA has signed contracts to expand the system law enforcement and 
vets will have asscess to the data base. When I leave FL, it is added to the 
record when I left.  If it works the way as projected, a record of where your 
horse was and when can be stored in the data base so there is traceability. If 
something breaks out at a location where your horse was and there is a record 
you can be contacted. 

FL was the first state and this system was first tried in FL. It's being 
expanded to five states at the present with the plan to expand nation wide. 

Truman


-----Original Message-----
From: "rides2far@xxxxxxxx" <rides2far@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sep 1, 2004 3:32 PM
To: mitts_n@xxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [RC]   [RC] Illinois Permit numbers




Anything that can carry a disease 

that could infect our food supply or humans will have to be identifiable as 
to it's point of origin and wherever all it has been.

So...you think in this age of scanners, personal computers, etc. etc. that a 
real terrorist couldn't fake off an ag inspector? Reminds me of a book I read 
about a former Navy Seal whose job was to test security at Nuclear Plants, etc. 
He never had any trouble getting in and the people in charge of security would 
whine that they weren't warned there would be a drill, or that he had had the 
gall to cut their fence or something and not come through the check points. If 
he faked ID they didn't think that was "fair" either. :-P



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