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• National Livestock Identification System
  • About NLIS
  • NLIS Advantages
  • NLIS Cattle Contacts
  • NLIS Cattle Device Manufacturers
  • Using the NLIS database
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  • Processors
  • Saleyards
  • NLIS and the EU
  • Technical Specifications
  • NLIS for Sheep & Goats
• Meat Standards Australia
• Southern beef
• Northern beef
• Lamb & sheep
• Goats
• Lotfeeding
• Livestock exports
• Information Standards
• Collaborative programs
• Our industry and the community

National Livestock Identification System

Welcome to the NLIS section of the MLA website.

NLIS is Australia's system for livestock identification and traceability. It is a permanent whole-of-life system that allows individual animals to be identified electronically and tracked from property of birth to slaughter, for food safety, product integrity and market access purposes.

To find NLIS information relevant to you, click the links on the left or right side of this screen, or on the page below.

• Access or login to the NLIS database
• Download NLIS database notification forms
• Download the NLIS database Terms of Use Edition 1.9 21/8/2008 which explains the rules for using the NLIS database and outlines users' obligations and responsibilities when entering and accessing data in the NLIS database (823KB, PDF)
• NLIS information for New South Wales, South Australia, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, Western Australia and the Northern Territory
• Find out about NLIS Express, the mobile phone application which allows you to transfer cattle and run simple queries without a computer

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