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Digital Livestock Traceability Is Improving. The Next Challenge Is Preserving the Evidence Around the Animal

The UK is investing heavily in livestock identification and movement recording, and it is working. But an animal is surrounded by evidence that no traceability system holds, and connecting that evidence without erasing its origin is the next problem.

1 Oct 202614 min read
News
BioChain Responds to UK Government Smart Data Call for Evidence
BioChain has responded to the UK Government’s Smart Data call for evidence, proposing provenance as a core component of trusted agrifood data sharing and offering a practical UK…
1 Oct 20266 min read
Infrastructure
Connected Data Is Not Enough: Why One Health Intelligence Needs Verifiable Provenance
FAO has launched a One Health intelligence hub, and integration is exactly the right direction. But as evidence is combined across organisations, a second question becomes unavoidable: how…
29 Sep 20268 min read
News
Coming Home: The BioChain Opens in Liverpool
The BioChain has opened a new office at Liverpool Science Park — CEO Ashley Morgan's home city, and a hub for infectious disease, veterinary science and global health…
14 Sep 202610 min read
Advisory
The Provenance Readiness Check Is Now Live Online
The Provenance Readiness Check — our free, twenty-question self-assessment — is now available as an interactive online tool alongside the original PDF, with instant scoring and a printable…
14 Sep 20263 min read
News
Most Policy Trackers Tell You What the Law Says. Ours Tells You When We Last Checked.
We have published a Policy & Regulatory Landscape page covering nineteen frameworks across the EU, UK and US. Every entry carries its own review date and a link…
14 Sep 20265 min read
EU Policy
The Minimum Evidence Record, v0.1
A small, stable core of nine provenance relationships that should travel with a consequential scientific or regulatory result when it leaves the system that produced it — published…
14 Sep 20266 min read
EU Policy
From Data Governance to Evidence Governance: The Full EU Policy White Paper
The complete text of The BioChain's EU policy white paper, published in full and free to read: a proposal for a European minimum evidence record, ahead of EHDS…
14 Sep 202653 min read
EU Policy
Europe Knows Where Its Servers Are. It Doesn’t Know Where Its Evidence Came From.
The Cloud and AI Development Act treats sovereignty as a matter of visibility into dependency, not just geography — a lesson Europe hasn't yet applied to the evidence…
14 Sep 202610 min read
EU Policy
From Data Governance to Evidence Governance: Our EU Policy White Paper
We're publishing our EU policy white paper, proposing that European health and research policy distinguish more explicitly between data governance and evidence governance — and a minimum evidence…
14 Sep 20265 min read
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