Method for determining the origin of and/or identifying animals or biological material

摘要

The invention relates to a method for determining the origin of and/or identifying animals or biological material of animals and organisms. The method comprises the following steps: storing identification data on a data storage medium in the form of an encoded message which has an unequivocal relationship with an item of genetic information unequivocally identifying an animal or the biological material; and checking the identification data to see whether it has said predetermined relationship with the genetic information. The invention also relates to a chip card and a computer system for use in carrying out the method and to a method for generating the data allocated to the animal.