Full Traceability

All cattle in New Zealand are required by law to be tagged with a radio frequency identification tag containing a microchip, with a 15-digit RFID number that is globally unique and can be read with an RFID scanner. In addition, the date of birth, gender, production type, status and movements of all cattle in New Zealand are required by law to be registered in the National Animal Identification and Tracing online system.

Our supplying farms comply with the NAIT requirements. They also maintain many more records in accordance with their standard operating procedures that exceed the NAIT requirements, including, for example, breeding history, health history, feeding history and biosecurity history.

Cattle are transported from our supplying farms and settled on grassland at our facility for a period of at least one week, before they are harvested and processed one at a time in accordance with our standard operating procedures. By harvesting and processing animals one at a time, we can ensure full traceability, and prevent cross-contamination, of our bovine raw material.

Every individual package of our bovine raw material is identified and labelled by reference to the NAIT number of the specific source animal from which that material was collected. Our bovine raw material is thereby fully traceable to a specific source animal and the comprehensive records of that animal.