Every holding including bovines, pigs, poultry (> 200 animals), sheep, goats or cervids is registered in the central database, named ‘SANITEL’.
SANITEL is the official database for the identification, registration (I&R) and traceability of all food producing animals, holders and holdings that produce those animals.
SANITEL is officially in place for:
- Bovines: since 1992
- Pigs: since 1995
- Small ruminants and cervids: since 1996
- Poultry: since 1999
- Aquaculture animals (Fish): since 2010
- Rabbits: since 2018
The FASFC is the legislative and controlling (supervising) authority in charge of SANITEL Two animal health service associations, DGZ and ARSIA , both approved by the competent Minister, are the executing bodies, managing the Sanitel database.
In SANITEL are registered:
- All holdings keeping food producing animals:
- Address – geographical coordinates;
- Unique holding number;
- Animal herds (per species) per holding:
- Address – geographical coordinates;
- Unique holding number / herd number;
- Linked locations and pastures at distance (> 25 km) (for bovines);
- Production characteristics (for pigs and poultry):
- Housing system;
- Type of production: breeding, fattening, rearing, …..
- Production capacity (for pigs and poultry)
- Yearly animal count (for small ruminants).
- Animal holders:
- Responsible person per holding;
- Unique holder number.
Furthermore, the following ‘other operators’, dealing with live animals, are registered in SANITEL:
- Traders, assembly centres and control posts;
- Transporters;
- Slaughterhouses;
- Approved veterinarians (for epidemiological surveillance).
For each holding, SANITEL also contains information on:
- The individual animals themselves: bovines only;
- A yearly animal count: for small ruminants only;
- The movements of animals (from/to holdings: e.g. farm, assembly centres,slaughterhouse);
- The farm veterinarian: for bovine, pigs and poultry;
- The sanitary risk status regarding several official and non-official diseases;
- The risk status regarding residues of veterinary medicines, abuse of hormonal products and contaminants;
- Medicine treatments: e.g. vaccination programmes for official diseases;
- Delivered and used volume of antibiotics: for pigs, poultry (chickens), veal calves (in a separate module of SANITEL, called SANITEL-MED).