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Sure wish they'd offer this for US troops. Helps to know whats what on strange ground.
Awful subs market. Usual pigs are flat. THTHF IBII LSTA IYDJ. Nothing doing. Just little wiggles. NXIA had that strange shareholder letter. Not much else. Buried the rest. Election has it all on hold. Leaning to KK after latest market news. When Whirlpool is hurting, well....
Dreaming of the 90s days!
Portuguese Government Selects Digital Angel's Implantable RFID Microchip for Mandatory Dog Identification Project
via COMTEX
July 23, 2004
SO. ST. PAUL, Minn., Jul 23, 2004 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ --
Digital Angel Corporation (Amex: DOC), an advanced technology company in the field of rapid and accurate identification, location tracking, and condition monitoring of high-value assets, announced today that it has won a contract from the Portuguese Ministry of Agriculture to launch the first phase of a national mandatory dog identification project using the Company's proprietary implantable RFID (radio frequency identification) microchip. This contract is valued at approximately $600,000 and shipments have begun and are expected to be completed in the third quarter.
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.
Digital Angel's partner in the Portuguese initiative, and all its European pet identification programs, is Atlanta-based Merial, one of the world's leading animal healthcare companies.
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.
About Merial
Merial is a Merck and Aventis company and is one of the world's leading animal healthcare companies. Merial has an extensive network of sixteen manufacturing sites globally and operates in more than 150 countries worldwide. Merial also has the largest research & development investment in the animal health industry with ten research & development centers around the world.
About Digital Angel Corporation
Digital Angel Corporation develops and deploys sensor and communications technologies that enable rapid and accurate identification, location tracking, and condition monitoring of high-value assets. Applications for the Company's products include identification and monitoring of pets, fish and livestock through its patented implantable microchips; location tracking and message monitoring of vehicles and aircraft in remote locations through systems that integrate GPS and geosynchronous satellite communications; and monitoring of asset conditions such as temperature and movement, through advanced miniature sensors.
Digital Angel Corporation is majority-owned by Applied Digital Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADSX). For more information about Digital Angel, please visit www.DigitalAngelCorp.com
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