National Animal Identification System hold one or more heads of livestock including horses, cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, deer and camels, though the NLIS will not confirm ownership of livestock. The system originates from a cattle-tracing system introduced in Australia in the 1960s to help fight bovine tuberculosis. The Australian system has over 11,000,000 phantom livestock in the system that do not exist. This system costs farmers money because of the increased handling time and lost margins when tags do not match in the system resulting in lower payments to farmers. New Zealand is planning a similar National Animal Identification and Tracing system. National Animal
National Animal Resource Facility for Biomedical Research National Animal Resource Facility for Biomedical Research The National Animal Resource Facility for Biomedical Research formerly the National Center for Laboratory Animal Sciences is an Indian Biomedical research facility, and vivarium under the Indian Council of Medical Research. The new 33rd flagship institute of ICMR was founded in 2015, at Genome Valley in Hyderabad, India. The center is a state of the art Animal house and Animal sciences facility located near Turkapally, Shamirpet spread over 102 acres of land. The institute proposes to breed specific pathogen free animals such as mice, rats, hamsters, rabbit, guinea pigs, mini pigs, canines, swine,