METS — carry provenance across the abattoir boundary.
LITS tracks the live animal. METS tracks the meat: it binds verified livestock provenance to the export carcass, consignment and container — and emits the exact proof each destination market legally requires.
Registries track the living animal. The chain breaks at slaughter.
National systems prove an animal's origin up to the farm gate or saleyard. But the value chain needs proof all the way to the export container — and the chain breaks at the abattoir, where animals from many holdings are pooled and split into carcasses and cuts. Importers have tightened their rules to the point where they cannot legally buy what they cannot verify carcass-by-carcass. That break is where export revenue is stranded.
- Origin is proven up to the farm gate — then pooling erases it.
- Many holdings become carcasses, consignments and containers.
- METS preserves a verifiable link across that aggregation and split.
One binding, every market's proof.
Bind the animal to the meat once, across the split — then emit the artifact each importer can verify, from that single source of truth.
Ingest · any registry
Consumes animal identity, movement and health from whatever national system a country runs — LITS today; Botswana's BAITS and South Africa's RMIS next — through a pluggable registry adapter.
Bind · across the split
Links the animal(s) to the slaughter event, carcass, consignment and container — an unbroken path from any exported unit back to every contributing holding. That binding integrity is the product's moat.
Emit · each market's dialect
From that one binding, produces the destination's required artifact: EU EUDR Due Diligence Statement + CBT/SPS health, GCC FMD-bypass provenance + digital Halal, China zone-clearance dossier.
Verify · at the border
Every artifact is signed and publicly verifiable by QR — a border officer or importer checks it with no login, reusing the same public verification pattern as LITS.
- Reference
- ZW-DDS-2026-0042
- Carcasses
- 18 · from 6 holdings
- Origin proof
- geolocation set · via LITS
- Destination
- EU · TRACES-NT
binds animal → carcass → container · publicly verifiable
Built outside the registry, on purpose.
METS is a separate commercial integrator, deliberately built outside LITS. It connects through the same public client API as any other vendor — with no privileged access — so the open standard stays a neutral standard. And it is registry-agnostic by design: LITS today, BAITS and RMIS next, never locked to any one system.
- Same public API as any vendor — no special access to the registry.
- Registry-agnostic adapters: LITS, BAITS, RMIS.
- The neutral standard stays neutral; METS competes on the export layer.
One animal record, three compliance dialects.
Each importer asks for proof in its own language. METS emits all three from the same binding — so an exporter files once, not three times.
European Union
A Due Diligence Statement carrying the farm geolocation of every contributing holding — required from the EUDR application date (Dec 2026) — plus commodity-based-trade and SPS health attestation.
Gulf states
FMD-zone-bypass provenance, a digital Halal attestation and a farm-to-shelf QR — the fastest premium and the fewest structural barriers, where UAE, KSA and Qatar pay for authenticated origin.
China
A supply-chain isolation and zone-clearance dossier — the evidence base for re-opening access after FMD bans, traceable consignment by consignment.
METS builds the verifiable evidence base and files the operator's statements. It does not grant a country market access — that remains a sovereign, veterinary, multi-year programme. METS makes the proof; the authority and the importer decide.
Close the break at the abattoir.
Processor, exporter or veterinary authority — see how METS carries provenance from the live animal all the way to the export container.