University Of Florida Improves Lab-Animal Tracking
Featuring August Battles, veterinarian and director of animal-care services, University of Florida

Used with permission from RFID Journal, Inc.

The University of Florida (UF) is employing an RFID system to track thousands of rodents housed for research and experimentation. The college had been testing and expanding the system for the past year, and currently tracks about 6,000 cages of laboratory rats and mice, with plans to track all 11,000 cages in its custody by March 1, 2008. That amounts to about 35,000 rodents.

The system, provided by data-collection solutions firm Dynasys, enables the school's department of animal-care services to better track the movement of the animal cages for billing accuracy, and spares the university staff hours of labor spent conducting regular inventories of the cages and animals.