Indiana Administrative Code › Title 345 - INDIANA STATE BOARD OF ANIMAL HEALTH › Article 1 - DOMESTIC ANIMAL DISEASE CONTROL; GENERAL PROVISIONS › Rule 2.6 - Animal Identification › Section 2.6-1 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
Authority: IC 15-17
Affected: IC 15-17
Sec. 1.
The definitions in IC 15-17-2 and the following apply
				  throughout this rule:
(1) "Animal
				identification number" or "AIN" means a numbering system for the official
				identification of individual animals in the United States that provides a
				nationally unique identification number for each animal. The AIN consists of
				fifteen (15) digits, with the first three (3) being the country code (840 for
				the United States or a unique country code for a U.S. territory that has such a
				code and elects to use it in place of the 840 code). The AIN beginning with the
				840 prefix may not be applied to animals known to have been born outside the
				United States.
(2) "Board" means
				the Indiana state board of animal health appointed under IC 15-17-3.
(3) "Feeder pigs" means swine under six (6)
				months of age that are not slaughter swine.
(4) "Flock-based number system" means a
				combination of a flock identification number (FIN) with a producer's unique
				livestock production numbering system to provide a nationally unique
				identification number for an animal.
(5) "Flock identification number" or "FIN"
				means a nationally unique number assigned by a state or federal animal health
				authority to a group of animals that are managed as a unit on one (1) or more
				premises and are under the same ownership.
(6) "Group/lot identification number" or
				"GIN" means the identification number used to uniquely identify a "unit of
				animals" of the same species that is managed together as one (1) group
				throughout the preharvest production chain. When a GIN is used, it is recorded
				on documents accompanying the animals moving interstate. It is not necessary to
				have the GIN attached to each animal.
(7) "Location-based number system" means a
				combination of a state issued LID or a PIN with a producer's unique livestock
				production numbering system to provide a nationally unique and herd-unique
				identification number for an animal.
(8) "National Uniform Eartagging System" or
				"NUES" means a numbering system for the official identification of individual
				animals in the United States that provides a nationally unique identification
				number for each animal.
(9)
				"Official eartag" means an identification tag approved by the state
				veterinarian that bears an official identification number for individual
				animals. All official eartags applied to animals must bear an official eartag
				shield. The official eartag must be tamper resistant and have a high retention
				rate in the animal.
(10) "Official
				eartag shield" means the shield-shaped graphic of the U.S. Route Shield with
				"U.S." or the state postal abbreviation or Tribal alpha code imprinted within
				the shield.
(11) "Official
				identification number" means a nationally unique number that is permanently
				associated with an animal or group of animals and that adheres to one (1) of
				the following systems:
(A) National Uniform
				Eartagging System (NUES).
(B)
				Animal identification number (AIN).
(C) Location-based number system.
(D) Flock-based number system.
(E) Any other numbering system approved by
				the state veterinarian for the official identification of animals.