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<strong>Lives</strong><strong>tock Trade Services (LTS) is a UK-based private holding company that houses country-level livestock inspection, certification, quality assurance, and traceability services for the export trade in livestock and met. </strong>

<strong>Additionally, LTS is the parent company for Agri-Secure International, a Kenyan based river side livestock fattening and finishing farm that specializes in the production or high quality feed and livestock for discerning importing markets.</strong>

<strong>Adding Value to Livestock and Meat</strong>
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 	<li>Livestock Trade Services was formed to work independent of, but with livestock and meat exporters, importers, governments, producers and processors.</li>
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 	<li>As an independent specialized service provider, LTS works only in livestock and meat, thus is highly specialized. Our proprietary Animal Passport and Traceability system provides Quality Assurance that our products are what we say they are.</li>
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 	<li>We strive to increase consumer and governmental trust and confidence in any product we handle.  This is why we guarantee our products to be what we say they are.</li>
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 	<li>LTS was formed in 2005 in London. Operations are in the Horn of Africa and the GCC with plans for extension into Middle East Countries.</li>
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 	<li>We serve exporters, importers and governments. In addition, we provide training and consulting services to live animal and meat export processors.</li>
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<strong>Management</strong>

Our approach to management is highly interactive.  We engage our staff empowering them to question everything we do and develop even better, more efficient solutions.

Dr. Chip Stem, our CEO has 40 years’ experience in livestock production, disease control, export and import processing and trade.

Dr. Stem conceived and developed the first modern livestock export quarantine in Africa.  His unique design has become the standard for livestock export quarantines.  Prior to that, he led a small team to develop a thermos-stable rinderpest vaccine which became the vaccine of choice for the Global Rinderpest Eradication Program.  This vaccine permitted community-based animal health workers, government agents, and private veterinarians to keep the vaccine without refrigeration for a month or more.  Beginning in 1983, Dr. Stem while an Assistant Professor at Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine, pioneered the concept of community-based animal health workers, by training pastoralists and farmers to operate their own animal health businesses under the watchful eyes and supervision of a licensed veterinarian.  This system was largely responsible for the rapid success in delivering tens of millions of doses of rinderpest to countries in the Horn of Africa, Central Africa, and West Africa eradicating this most serious livestock disease from the continent and eventually the world.  Rinderpest is only the second disease (after smallpox) to have been globally eradicated by man.

LTS staff consist of highly ethical professionals and lay personnel who have a sense of service and understand the importance of their work in protecting consumers from unhygienic or tainted meat and livestock in importing countries from livestock disease.

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Dr. Stem holds a BS in Biology from St, John Fisher College, Rochester, New York; a DVM from the University of Nairobi, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Nairobi Kenya; Internship and Residency Certificates from The New York State College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York, and a MA in Economics and International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts.   He served as faculty and Head of International Veterinary Programs at Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine and also on the faculty of the Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at the Feinstein International Center, and Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.