Pharmaceutical companies are important players in the beef cattle production cycle. They provide vaccines for preventing disease, antibiotics and other products for treating animal disease or enhancing production. They want to develop effective products and ensure that there are no issues related to tissue residues in products destined for human consumption. To do so, they need better and more data from the primary producer level regarding dates of product administration, dosages, withdrawal dates and response to treatment.

Viewtrak's Beeftrak system offers a unique source of such information. The Beeftrak database is dynamic, Internet-based and accessible anywhere and any time. At every stage of the beef supply chain, producers, feeders, processors and retailers are building a storehouse of valuable information that relates animal origins, treatments and handling to the final product. Access to the Beeftrak database will permit pharmaceutical companies, veterinarians, university and government researchers alike to determine the efficacy and acceptability of treatments. For example, it will make it easier to:

• ascertain how disease prevention and production maximization factors affect nutrition, management and environmental concerns
• develop acceptable and effective products
• support the use of existing products

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