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Digital Angel Wins Portuguese Microchipping Contract
Digital Angel Wins Portuguese Dog Microchipping Contract
All dog microchips used in Portugal will be supplied by
the Minnesota technology company.
by Steve Johnson, staff
July 24, 2004
Digital Angel Corporation (Amex: DOC) has won a contract
with the County of Portugal to supply RFID microchips for
its mandatory dog microchipping program. The contract is expected
to be valued at $600,000.00.
Leo Ortenblad, Digital Angel's General Manager for the RFID
Division's International Activities commented, "We are delighted
that the Portuguese Ministry of Agriculture has selected Digital
Angel's RFID chip for the launch of this important program,
one of many in the planning stages throughout Europe. We were
selected after a very competitive bid process partly on the
basis of our 15 years of proven results in the European market,
both in terms of performance and reliability. Digital Angel
is the original innovator, intellectual-property owner and
the world's largest marketer of implantable microchip technology
for the companion pet marketplace and we consider our established
technological platform to be unsurpassed by any other manufacturer."
The Portuguese dog identification program is being conducted
in conjunction with the country's annual rabies vaccination
drive. The Portuguese ministry was prompted to undertake the
project because other countries in Europe had experienced
excellent results with their pet identification campaigns
and the injectable electronic identification of pets is rapidly
growing in popularity throughout the world.
The deadline for all of Portugal's approximately 2 million
dogs to be identified and registered in a national database
is 2007.
The issue of pet identification is prominent throughout Europe,
thanks also to the recently enacted European Union's Pet Passport
Initiative. This requires all pets being transported between,
and into, member countries to have an electronic ID system
or tattoo number as well as a record of vaccinations and other
clinical data by October 1.
For more information, contact Digital Angel Corporation at:
http://www.digitalangelcorp.com/
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