Brussels, 06/05/2003 (Agence Europe) - On a farm at Monterotondo, near Rome, on Monday, the European Commission presented the results of the IDEA (identification électronique des animaux) project, which confirms the feasibility of electronic tagging for cows, sheep and goats. The traditional systems, such as tattooing or ear-tagging, can be modified and are not always reliable, which can make them ineffective. The manual recording of data is slow and is open to errors. The Commission has...