QR code for meat quality is introduced in Kazakhstan

The Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan is implementing a project to ensure full traceability of livestock products from farm to table, Kazinform News Agency cites the Ministry’s press service.

The ministry has developed a "Veterinary and Sanitary Examination of Meat" proposal to prevent the slaughter of animals for the purposes of carrying out slaughter-free veterinary inspections and post-slaughter veterinary and sanitary examinations of carcasses and organs.
The system automates the business processes of issuing a certificate of expertise after undergoing veterinary and sanitary expertise at slaughter facilities and at domestic trade facilities, as well as generates a QR code with information on the full life cycle of an animal.
The QR code is located in areas where meat is sold, thereby preventing the slaughter of animals without veterinary inspection and examination of carcasses and organs.
The project has now been launched and is being implemented in all regions and cities of republican significance. To date, 1,664 slaughter facilities, veterinary and sanitary examination laboratories, and trading facilities have been connected to it. Furthermore, more than 1,470 veterinarians, lab staff of the laboratory of veterinary sanitary expert examination, and state veterinary and sanitary inspectors are now registered in the system.
The use of QR codes has enabled the issuing of over 117,000 veterinary certificates of the form and 438,000 acts of expertise.
The system has already been successfully tested at the Sharbakty veterinary control point in the Pavlodar region bordering the Russian Federation.
Prior to this, the veterinary service of the Karaganda region had announced a pilot project involving the use of QR codes.
On top of that, a genetic center for livestock and crop production is to be established in Kazakhstan.