Microsoft's new role: Livestock tracker
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Microsoft has partnered with supply-chain software vendor ViaTrace LLC and a nonprofit livestock producers group to launch a database intended to track diseased animals in the U.S. and reduce consumer fears.
The ViaTrace database will allow livestock producers and government officials to track diseased animals and avoid wide-scale bans of exports to countries that consume U.S. meat, said Charles Miller, chairman of the U.S. Animal Identification Organization, a new group representing regional identification organizations and beef and bison producer groups.