WO2006089634A1 - Kit d’identification d’animaux - Google Patents

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WO2006089634A1
WO2006089634A1 PCT/EP2006/001092 EP2006001092W WO2006089634A1 WO 2006089634 A1 WO2006089634 A1 WO 2006089634A1 EP 2006001092 W EP2006001092 W EP 2006001092W WO 2006089634 A1 WO2006089634 A1 WO 2006089634A1
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Joan Francesc Vlaseca Vintro
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Rumitag, S.L.
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01K—ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS
    • A01K11/00—Marking of animals
    • A01K11/001—Ear-tags
    • A01K11/004—Ear-tags with electronic identification means, e.g. transponders
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01K—ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS
    • A01K11/00—Marking of animals
    • A01K11/006—Automatic identification systems for animals, e.g. electronic devices, transponders for animals
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01K—ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS
    • A01K11/00—Marking of animals
    • A01K11/006—Automatic identification systems for animals, e.g. electronic devices, transponders for animals
    • A01K11/007—Boluses

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  • the invention relates to a kit for identifying animals, especially for identifying and monitoring farm animals, ruminants or monogastric animals, such as cows, sheep or pigs.
  • Domestic animals are generally marked in some way to allow the animal to be identified throughout its life. More specifically, farm animals are marked for hygiene purposes, to prevent fraud and to control cross-border trade. Identification of this type of animal is also aimed at controlling the meat produced from them, whereby such identification should be possible until it dies or is slaughtered in the abattoir, so that control of the animal can also be extended to the products deriving from it. By knowing the origin of the meat, identification of the animal from which it comes also allows us to know the background history of said animal, collected throughout its life, and is associated with the identification number or code the animal has been marked with from birth or during the rearing period.
  • livestock is marked via branding or tattooing, or by the use of labels or tags, also called crotals, in the ears of the animals.
  • conventional tags or crotals are comprised of two parts, one comprising a male perforating component, while the other part comprises a female coupling component, suitable for receiving the male component of the first part once it has pierced the animal's ear, the latter being held securely in the coupling part of the female component, the two parts of the tag being joined together so that they cannot be separated, both being attached to the animal's ear.
  • At least one of the two parts comprising the tag has an external visual reference or signal of the animal's identification code, which is usually a numerical or alphanumerical representation which is quick and easy to read.
  • labels of this type which also have an electronic device, such as a transponder, which stores the identification code which identifies the animal wearing the label.
  • a transponder which stores the identification code which identifies the animal wearing the label.
  • identifiers are those that comprise a receptacle which encapsulates an electronic device which stores at least the animal's identification code.
  • Such receptacles are suitable for subcutaneous implantation below the surface of the animal's hide, normally behind the ear, or for administration to the animal, being lodged inside its stomach, especially in ruminants.
  • the electronic devices generate a response signal, for example, an identification code, in response to an electromagnetic field of interrogation generated by a transmitter-receiver. It can be said that these electronic devices can store an identification code in some way.
  • patent document WO 93/05648 discloses a "capsule" type identifier, for lodging in the stomach of a ruminant, which includes both electronic and visual means of identification.
  • the receptacle which encapsulates the electronic device has a permanent visual representation of the same code which the electronic identification device generates in response to a field of interrogation, on and/or inside it.
  • This solution enables the animal to be identified even when the electronic device is not functioning properly, when it is absolutely imperative or when the appropriate reading devices are not available, but only when the animal dies or is slaughtered in the abattoir, since the receptacle must be visible for identification of the animal via the visual representation provided on said receptacle. When the animal is still alive and the electronic device is not functioning correctly or no appropriate reading device is available, the animal cannot be correctly identified.
  • the solution is based on the visual representation of the code on the receptacle being permanent, which means that it must continue to be legible after remaining in the rumen or reticulum of the animal, or below the surface of its hide.
  • the kit for identifying animals object of the invention which solves said problems, is characterized, in essence, in that it is comprised of at least one label for identifying animals, such as a tag or similar, and of a receptacle which encapsulates an electronic means of identification which is to be kept or lodged permanently in the body of an animal, introduced in the same sealed packaging, having both the animal identifying label and the receptacle for external signals or references so that, for their simple visual observation, a reciprocal relationship between them is obvious and unquestionable.
  • Such characteristics enable an array of identifiers to be commercialized in a single unit, comprising a kit, to achieve the same end, in this case, the multiple marking of the same animal without the risk of confusion or inadequate identification.
  • the external signals or references of the receptacle partially reproduce the signals or references of the identifying label.
  • the external signals or references of the identifying label are a visual representation of an electronically stored code in the electronic identifying means encapsulated in the receptacle packaged together with the identifying label.
  • said packaging is transparent, or at least partially.
  • said packaging is flexible and must be broken, cut or torn apart to be definitively opened.
  • the packaging has at least one visual representation linked to the external signals or references of the identifying label and the receptacle.
  • the packaging 6 also stores at least one bar-coded label which reproduces the electronically stored code in the identifying electronic means 4.
  • Fig. 1 is a representation of a set of identifiers which is contained in a kit for identifying animals according to a first embodiment
  • Fig. 2 is a representation of a kit according to the invention, which includes the set of identifiers in Fig. 1, introduced in the same sealed packaging, for their storage and transport, without the possibility of them being mixed up with other identifiers.
  • Fig. 3 is a representation of an animal with the dual marking of the first and the second identifiers of the kit in Fig. 2;
  • Fig. 4 is a representation of a second embodiment of the kit according to the invention, which includes a set of identifiers different from the one in Fig. 1;
  • Fig. 5 is a representation of an animal with the dual marking of the first and the second identifiers of the kit in Fig. 4.
  • Fig. 1 shows a set of identifiers which is comprised, as an example, of a capsule of the type comprising a receptacle 3 which encapsulates an electronic means of identification 4 (see Fig. 3) and an ear label, or tag, of the type comprising a first part 2b and a second part 2a, for attaching by placing either side of the ear of an animal, both parts being joined and fastened to the ear of the animal.
  • the set of identifiers in Fig. 1 is to be applied on the same animal, so that it will have dual marking by two different types of identifiers. Thus, even if one of the identifiers ceases to operate or gets lost, the animal will continue to be identified by the other identifier, ensuring the correct control of the animal.
  • the two identifiers are linked, in a way that will be explained below, to prevent the identifiers of the same set being applied to different animals and thus destroying the concept of dual marking referred to in the previous paragraph.
  • the two identifiers which, in the example, are comprised of the receptacle 3, which incorporates the electronic means 4, and the tag 2, are introduced in the same packaging 6 so that they cannot be mixed up with identifiers of the same family, in other words, with other tags or other receptacles with electronic means, at the time of application to the animal.
  • the receptacle 3 and the tag 2 are introduced in the same flexible packaging 6, in such a way that they cannot be separated, if the packaging 6 is not broken, cut or torn apart to be definitively opened.
  • This characteristic makes it impossible, on the one hand, for the set of identifiers contained in the packaging 6 to be confused or mixed up with similar identifiers or even with similar kits during handling before it is applied to the animal, for example, during its transport and storage.
  • opening of the packaging involves breaking the sealed unit with which the identifiers are linked, which ensures that the identifiers have not been substituted or altered by a third party before being applied to the animal.
  • both identifiers each have external signals or references which, in the example in the drawings, are comprised of alphanumerical representations.
  • the receptacle 3 has a numerical inscription 7
  • part 2b of the tag has an inscription 8 which combines numbers and letters, both inscriptions being external and easy to see.
  • the inscription 7 of the receptacle 3 is a partial reproduction of the inscription 8 of part 2b of the tag 2 and, more specifically, reproduces the larger-sized numbers written on said part 2b of the tag.
  • This inscription 8 of part 2b of the tag can itself correspond to the identification code stored in the electronic means 4 which encapsulates the receptacle 3 either partially or completely.
  • the inscription 8 of the external identifier in the example, part 2b of the tag) fully reproduces the code associated with the electronic means 4 so that, in the event of said electronic means 4 being damaged or lost, or the means for reading said electronic means not being available, the animal can be identified via an alternative means, which is the external identifier comprising the tag 2.
  • the partial reproduction of the receptacle 3 is more than adequate so that, by simple visual observation of the inscriptions 7 and 8 of the two identifiers of the same set or kit (the receptacle 3 and the tag 2), a reciprocal relationship between the two is obvious and unquestionable.
  • the main function of the inscription 7 of the receptacle 3 is precisely to ensure the correct marking of the animal, avoiding confusion when marking. For this reason, the inscription 7 of the receptacle 3 does not need to be permanent. The subsequent deterioration of said inscription does not affect the main objective of the invention, which is to control the marking operation.
  • Fig. 3 is a diagrammatical representation of the identifiers contained by the kit for identifying animals in Fig. 2, once they have been applied to the animal.
  • the tag 2 is external and the inscriptions 8 on said tag are visible and can be read without the need for an appropriate reading device, while the receptacle 3 is lodged in the stomach of the animal, whereby reading of the inscription 7 can only be done when the receptacle 3 is removed from the animal, which generally occurs when the animal is slaughtered in the abattoir.
  • the animal can be identified by using an appropriate reading device which generates a response signal 9 from the electronic means 4 encapsulated in the receptacle 3.
  • the correct identification via either identifier offers a maximum guarantee using the kit being the object of the invention.
  • kits 1 may vary, it being commercialized as a single kit unit which comprises different sets of identifiers, combining, for example, tag-type ear labels with receptacles for subcutaneous implantation in an animal, sticky labels combined with receptacles for lodging in the stomach of the animals, etc.
  • the packaging 6 wherein the identifiers are introduced is transparent, so that the type of identifiers stored can be seen from the outside.
  • said packaging 6 can have any inscription that helps identify both its content and the code or codes associated with the identifiers stored inside it.
  • Fig. 4 is a representation of another embodiment of the kit 1 of the invention wherein the same numerical references have been used to designate the same characteristics.
  • the electronic means of identification 4 is for subcutaneous implantation beneath the hide of an animal, in particular, behind the ear of a pig, whereby the receptacle 3 is comprised, in this case, of an insertion needle 33, the array being prepared so that, via the help of a common applicator, the electronic identifying means is lodged in the animal's body.
  • the insertion needle 33 has the external inscription 7 written on its outer section 10, for attachment to the applicator which, as in the previous example, is a partial reproduction of the inscription 8 on the part 2b of the tag 2 which, together with the array comprised of the insertion needle 33 and the receptacle 3, makes up the kit 1 of the invention.
  • the packaging 6 in Fig. 4 also has a visual representation 11 linked to the external signals or references 8 and 7 of the identifying label 2 and the insertion needle 33, respectively. More specifically, the visual representation 11 is provided on a label 12 applied to the outside of the packaging 6. In the example in Fig. 4, the visual representation 11 of the label 12 reproduces a partial inscription 8 of the part 2b of the tag 2.
  • Fig. 5 is a diagrammatical representation of the identifiers contained in the kit for identifying animals in Fig. 3, once they have been applied to the animal.
  • the tag 2 is also on the outside, but has a rounded configuration to avoid harming the animal.
  • the inventor also provides for inclusion in the packaging 6 of one or more labels, for example self-adhesive labels, with a bar code containing the code stored in the electronic identification means 4, for possible later use in documentary records or for other purposes such as for marking samples taken from the animals identified.
  • labels for example self-adhesive labels
  • a bar code containing the code stored in the electronic identification means 4 for possible later use in documentary records or for other purposes such as for marking samples taken from the animals identified.

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L’invention concerne un kit (1) d’identification d’animaux, comprenant au moins une étiquette (2) d’identification d’animaux, comme un médaillon, et un réceptacle (3) incorporant un moyen d’identification électronique maintenu ou logé à demeure dans le corps d’un animal, introduit dans le même boîtier scellé (6) que l’étiquette d’identification d’animaux pour fournir des signaux ou des références externes (7, 8) de façon à ce que leur simple observation visuelle permette d’établir une relation réciproque mutuelle manifeste et incontestable.
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