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Livestock-tracking plan scaled back

Posted: February 6, 2010 at 3:04 a.m.

The U.S. is scrapping a national system to track livestock from birth to slaughter as industry opposition led to the failure of a voluntary program created after cases of mad-cow disease emerged starting in 2003.

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Business, Pages 21 on 02/06/2010

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