State information system for identification, registration and tracing of animals
and products of animal origin (AITS)

AITS is a system designated for state regulation and management in the field of identifcation, registration, traceability of farm animals (bovines, horses, pigs, goats, sheep) of all forms of ownership, livestock facilities, as well as identification and traceability of products of animal origin. A prerequisite for building safe and secure food supply chains is to adopt uniform national and international rules for identification, registration and traceability of farm animals and, basing on these rules, to develop technologies for traceability of products of animal origin.

AITS creates and keeps up-to-date databases and functional components for the identification and traceability of products of animal origin in supply chains, allowing to trace them from farm to fork and fork to farm in a “one step forward, one step back” manner.

AITS is a barcode- and FRID-based centralized system that is built on a powerful information node with appropriate means of communication. The system meets the requirements of the Belarusian and international regulations for animal identification systems.

AITS enables animal traceability in Belarus basing on national and international standards (GS1 global standards) for animal identification and registration.

The core of the AITS system uses modern international zootechnical and veterinary reference sources, global standards for identification, traceability and electronic data interchange, and has a flexible customization system. This allows it not only to be quickly tailored for the identification of different animal species, but also to take into account changes and differences in legislation, ensuring that the system can be quickly set up and implemented in other countries. This creates conditions for the development of effective traceability information technologies at the national, inter-agency and corporate level.