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TRACE 5th Annual Meeting and Conference: Lectures Parallel Session B TRACE in practice: New methods and systems for confirming the origin of food Freising (Munich) - Germany Milestones towards global traceability
H. Lehr 1 * Click here to view the PPT presentation Food traceability worldwide has received a lot of attention. There is a clear understanding (enforced by laws in some regions like the European Union) that traceability is a basic food safety requirement. Some countries have even initiated isolated effort to implement traceability on a national level. The current development, however, seems limited in two aspects In spite of a general understanding that food traceability can only be treated globally, there is no concerted international effort to implement the means for such an effort. Secondly, the food industry in itself does not seem to pick up traceability easily. Traceability has been labelled as complicated and expensive and its economic advantages are not clear enough for the food businesses. TRACE is trying to smooth the barrier of adoption significantly by providing simple to understand guidance for the food industry and simple to implement protocols for the exchange of data along the supply chain. However, other measures might be at order to improve the production of traceable food world wide. |
