ICAR is always alert to cases of inappropriate use of the registrations/certifications it issues. We strongly encourage manufacturers, Competent Authorities and farmers to report to ICAR all cases of misuse that they might come across.
The most common types of misuse of the ICAR registration/certification are the following:
RFID devices
- Wrong animal bit
- Missing product code
- Double codes
- Misuse of the country code
- Unauthorized use of the country code
- Senseless codes (no country code according to ISO 3166)
- Misuse of another manufacturer code
- Not existing code allocation in the shared manufacturer code
- Wrong numbering range in the right code allocation
- Wrong use of country code with shared code and allocation
- Not giving traceability information on request
- False certificate
- Unreported modifications to certified devices
Conventional ear tags
- False certificate
- Unreported modifications to certified devices
Misuse warnings
- Code of conduct violation: Shenzen Inno RFID Technology Co. Ltd (July 2025)
- Misuse of manufacturer code 992 in injectable transponders (June 2025)
- Duplicate ID codes – Product code 900248 (ID code range 900.215.000.000.000–900.215.010.999.999) (May 2024)
- Misuse case of 840-programmed ear tags in Canada (March 2024)
- Invalid 000-coded RFID ear tags (June 2022)
- Wrong animal bit in ICAR-certified injectable transponders with product code 900197 (June 2019)
- Misuse of ID code 900.155.000.101.234
- Misuse of Manufacturer Code 992
- Misuse of Manufacturer Code 981 with Ukraine country code 804
- Misuse of Manufacturer Code 958
- Use of 999 ID code for programming transponders