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with other details pertaining to Dark & Medullated Fibre Risk to their broker or selling agent through the National Wool Declaration scheme. This data is then passed on to AWTA where it is published on our Test Certificates and stored in our Central...

Wool Industry - Working Together to Future Proof Our Fibre

including a combined E-Speci (WoolClip), eBale, Sheep Sustainability Framework, WoolQ traceability data base,National Wool Declaration (NWD), AWTA test and PIC data, a distributed ledger (blockchain) platform that can deal with these issues with the...

Raw Wool Terms August 2013

Declaration Rates

wool selling season is shown below. Mulesing Status In July 2008 the Australian wool industry introduced a National Wool Declaration (NWD) scheme. This scheme allows wool growers to declare the Mulesing Status of wool to be tested by AWTA. That category...

The Australian Wool Traceability Hub Gains Momentum

The Australian Wool Traceability Hub (AWTH) continues to make significant strides in enhancing the wool industry's capability to respond effectively and quickly to an Emergency Animal Disease (EAD) outbreak. With a strong focus on increasing industry...

PIC and the Australian Wool Traceability Hub (AWTH)

The potential for Foot-and-Mouth disease to have a devastating impact on the wool industry is well known and recently illustrated by outbreaks in South Africa and the United Kingdom. As such, planning for, and mitigating the risks associated with such...