The National Livestock Identification System (NLIS) allows sheep to be tracked down during a disease outbreak or if chemical residues are found in meat.

This is vitally important as it allows authorities, such as DPI and RLPBs, to know:

• which sheep may have been involved, and
• where those sheep are.

This helps us to stop the problem quickly and reduce the effects of that disease or residue on the sheep industry and the wider community.

This means that accurate information must be available about where the sheep are at all times.

The information required is about where sheep are, not about who owns them.