System for tracing animal products
AssigneePig Improvement Company UK Limited
InventorsGraham S. Plastow, Alan J. Mileham, Todd Wilken, Christy Gladney, John Bastiaansen
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Abstract
The present invention is concerned with a genetic testing system that ensures complete traceability of animals and food products and involves a method of uniquely identifying animals for data collection, records management and retrieval purposes involving a novel method of genetic analysis using individual DNA fingerprinting of parentage of individual animal to effectively provide for full traceability of animals from birth to consumption.
Claims28
A method of genetically profiling a parental animal or a parental animal product for traceability purposes comprising:
- obtaining a sample of said parental animal or said parental animal product;
- genotyping said parental animal or said parental animal product utilizing a DNA marker based system;
- detecting a genomic sequence profile of said parental animal or said parental animal product from the DNA marker based system to determine the system or farm of origin of said parental animal or said a parental animal product.
A system for genetically identifying an animal from which a meat product is derived comprising:
- genotyping said animal;
- comparing the genotype with known parental animal genotypes in a reference database utilizing a DNA marker based system;
- locating any matching genotypes in said reference database to identify said animal;
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- determining the system or farm of orgin said animal is derived.
A method of health profiling a selected animal comprising:
- a) obtaining the genetic data of said animal;
- b) using a computer program to input sample information and genotype information of said selected animal to a reference database;
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- c) analyzing the sample information and genotype information in said reference database of the selected animal by comparing against the parental animal information in said reference database to determine the system or farm of orgin of said selected animal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.