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Argentina Launches Unified Digital Slaughter Control System, Scraps Paper Meat Ledger

The rule consolidates oversight through a single interface run by the Agriculture Secretariat.

Overview

  • The Economy Ministry published Resolution 40/2026 in the Boletín Oficial, signed by Luis Caputo, creating the unified Sistema Integral de Faena.
  • The measure abolishes the handwritten meat‑movement book and repeals long‑standing JNC, ONCCA and other rules to fold records into a single digital platform.
  • Slaughterhouses must register animal entries, pre‑slaughter approvals, slaughter results and daily inventories through SIF, with data treated as sworn declarations.
  • Each herd requires a SIF‑generated Autorización de Faena signed by the veterinary inspection service, with a paper receipt kept for one year.
  • The rule mandates chip reading for electronically tagged bovines, bubalinos and cervids and preserves corral numbering, anti‑mixing and carcass identification, with noncompliance risking preventive suspension and DT‑e blocks.