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Rivista trimestrale di Sanità
Pubblica Veterinaria edita dall'Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale
dell'Abruzzo e del Molise G.
Caporale'
A quarterly journal devoted to veterinary public health, veterinary science and medicine published by the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise ‘G. Caporale’ in Teramo, Italy |
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ISSUES ONLINE
2007
- Volume 43 (3)
July-September |
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Carla
Ippoliti, Adriano Di Pasquale, Gianluca Fiore, Lara Savini, Annamaria
Conte, Federica Di Gianvito & Cesare Di Francesco |
A
Web-based geographic information system for monitoring animal welfare
during long journeys |
753-759 |
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Summary
Animal welfare protection during long journeys
is mandatory according to European Union regulations designed to ensure
that animals are transported in accordance with animal welfare requirements
and to provide control bodies with a regulatory tool to react promptly
in cases of non-compliance and to ensure a safe network between products,
animals and farms. Regulation 1/2005/EC foresees recourse to a system
of traceability within European Union member states. The Joint Research
Centre of the European Commission (JRC) has developed a prototype
system fulfilling the requirements of the Regulation which is able
to monitor compliance with animal welfare requirements during transportation,
register electronic identification of transported animals and store
data in a central database shared with the other member states through
a Web-based application. Test equipment has recently been installed
on a vehicle that records data on vehicle position (geographic coordinates,
date/time) and animal welfare conditions (measurements of internal
temperature of the vehicle, etc.). The information is recorded at
fixed intervals and transmitted to the central database. The authors
describe the Web-based geographic information system, through which
authorised users can visualise instantly the real-time position of
the vehicle, monitor the sensor-recorded data and follow the time-space
path of the truck during journeys.
Keywords
Animal
welfare, Animal transportation, European Union, Geographic information
system, Italy, Traceability, Web.
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