LTS works with both importing and exporting governments

A young, well-finished brown goat walking on grass — Disease-free, antibiotic-free, hormone-free, and well-finished livestock for live animal and meat export is what we assure.

LTS works with both importing and exporting governments. As a Specialized Livestock Service Provider, LTS operates under the supervision and guidance of government, providing an independent assessment—equal to a second opinion, thus helping to ensure that all exported and imported livestock and meat products meet or exceed requirements.

Thus the good name of exporting governments is protected while importing governments have increased confidence in LTS-supervised exports.

How we work

Working closely with importing governments to understand their requirements and concerns we take this information to the exporting governments and the field. Additionally, exporting governments operate through official communication channels with importers and can inform our understanding so that we deliver better products which importers are confident in.

Should an incident happen, we work closely with both sides to rapidly get to the bottom of the problem. Our traceability system is key to enabling us to focus on the source of the problem and resolve any issues quickly. We then work with the concerned governments to amend our systems that prevent future occurrences.

LTS proprietary Traceability System – shared with importing and exporting governments

A black-headed sheep wearing a yellow barcoded LTS ear tag — Our proprietary Animal Passport & Traceability System assures disease-free, wholesome livestock & meat for our importing partners. Our system is unique among exporters from Africa.

The LTS Traceability System is at the core of our government relations. Each individual animal has a passport that through scanning can show a wealth of information about the animal or carcass. Information included in the LTS traceability System includes:

Animal PassportLTS Traceability System

Origin of the animal
Species
Age
Sex
Movement history and transport information
Date of arrival to processor (quarantine or slaughterhouse)
Clinical Exam Results and dates
Lab Tests performed and results and dates
Vaccinations administered and dates
Treatments given and withholding times if any. This ensures that the animal is not slaughtered before any withholding time has expired, meaning meat is always antibiotic-free.
Date slaughtered or passed quarantine.
Date shipped
Airline or ship identification
Airway bill / manifest information
Incidents including examinations and treatments on board the ship for live animal transport
Meat temperature information recorded during shipment (air or sea)

Importing and exporting governments are supplied with LTS proprietary databases for each shipment so that they can scan all livestock leaving or entering their countries and be sure that all livestock have been properly inspected.

A poorly skinned goat carcass with visible damage — Poorly skinned and inadequately chilled meat is a risk to consumers. LTS ensures that mistakes like these are never shipped to importing countries.

A well-flayed sheep carcass hanging in a slaughterhouse — We ensure that meat we export is always well processed, properly chilled, and antibiotic free.

Read about eliminating risk, ensuring wholesomeness.