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Global Animal Management (GAM) Provides Auction Markets the Means to Conveniently Age and Source Verify Through Auction Check™
Age and source verification supplies added value to livestock.
Roseland NJ, Sept. 15, 2009 - As the information age hits the cattle industry in full force, Global Animal Management, Inc. (GAM®), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health, is providing auction markets with the means to conveniently add value to their clients' livestock through Auction Check™, an online age, source and process verification program for the auction market.
"Auction Check subscribers are able to easily and electronically manage various market demands and requirements associated with value-added beef. Those demands include the growing market for age and source verified beef, as well as recent legislation pertaining to Country of Origin Labeling (COOL)," said Jim Heinle, president of Global Animal Management. "GAM developed Auction Check specifically with auction markets and sale barns in mind to help manage the different types of segmentation occurring in the cattle industry, and to manage the impact it is having on operations handling different sales on different days. The idea behind Auction Check is to ensure auction facilities and barns are ready if and when additional market or legislative pressures need to be met."
Auction Check can be utilized to meet compliance requirements associated with the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) via a voluntary interface with the GAM Animal Tracking Database (ATD). In addition to the benefits of age and source verification, the system also allows subscribers to become valuable marketing partners by helping buyers meet record keeping requirements for mandatory COOL Compliance. The online process allows facilitators to easily keep track and update cattle records, which are stored in a secure electronic data warehouse. Cattle records can be updated as needed, and when calves are ready for market, are easily transmitted to the next owner.
"Auction Check adds value to the cattle we sell, and in turn, makes a better product for our buyers," said Cody Volmer, Owner of Presho Livestock. "There are quite a few feed lots in the Northern Plains with a large demand for age and source verified cattle. If we were not able to offer verified cattle, we would have lost some of our customer base." GAM offers products and services for individual or group animal identification, storage, processing, analysis and reporting. GAM was the first company to have USDA interim-approved identification database with electronic ear tags approved by the NAIS.
To learn more about Auction Check or to enroll, call (800) 235-9824 or log on to www.gamauctioncheck.com or www.mygamonline.com.
About Schering-Plough Animal Health
Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health is a leader in research and dedicated to the development, production and marketing of innovative, high-quality animal-health products for all major farm and companion animal species. For more information about Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health visit: www.intervet.com and www.intervetusa.com.
Schering-Plough is an innovation-driven, science-centered global health care company. Through its own biopharmaceutical research and collaborations with partners, Schering-Plough creates therapies that help save and improve lives around the world. The company applies its research-and-development platform to human prescription and consumer products as well as to animal health products. Schering-Plough's vision is to “Earn Trust, Every Day” with the doctors, patients, customers and other stakeholders served by its colleagues around the world. The company is based in Kenilworth, New Jersey, USA, and its website is www.schering-plough.com.”
SCHERING-PLOUGH DISCLOSURE NOTICE: The information in this press release includes certain “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements related to expectations or forecasts of future events. Schering-Plough does not assume the obligation to update any forward-looking statement. Many factors could cause actual results to differ materially from Schering-Plough's forward-looking statements, including market forces, economic factors, product availability, patent and other intellectual property protection, current and future branded, generic or over-the-counter competition, the regulatory process, and any developments following regulatory approval, among other uncertainties. For further details about these and other factors that may impact the forward-looking statements, see Schering-Plough's Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including Part II, Item 1A “Risk Factors” in the Company's second Quarter 2009 10-Q, filed July 24, 2009.
