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Each pack of WESTGATE ANGUS beef can be traced to an individual animal.
All cattle must be registered at birth, and are allocated a unique number.
Every animal has an ear tag in each ear, showing its herd number followed by its own unique number.
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All cattle are issued with a cattle movement document - a passport which travels with an animal throughout its life
- which has the animal's number on it.
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The quarters hanging in the cold store are labelled, using the same cattle identification number.
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As Steve the butcher prepares the various cuts, he keeps the label with the meat
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As each pack of meat is weighed, the scales produce a label showing a trace code; this has
a letter identifying the farmer who bred the animal, and the last 4 digits of the unique number.
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