1. Home
  2. Innovations
  3. Eco-design and sustainable innovation

  4. Food traceability and consummers demands: opportunity or threat?

Article | REF: TR910 V2

Food traceability and consummers demands: opportunity or threat?

Author: Daniel LASAYGUES

Publication date: November 10, 2012

You do not have access to this resource.
Click here to request your free trial access!

Already subscribed? Log in!

Overview

Français

ABSTRACT

The traceability of food products has evolved so much in application fields concerning not only the types of information but also the scope of the field covered that it has become almost implicit, essential and mainly undisputable. Consummers now demand that any manufactured, industrial and particularly agrifood product be traced. The adavances of information and communication technologies have simplified the access to all this information which is received continuously and in real time. However, and it also concerns this field, the availability and rapidity of information sometimes prevail on precision and even accuracy. What are the clients' true expectations?

Read this article from a comprehensive knowledge base, updated and supplemented with articles reviewed by scientific committees.

Read the article

AUTHOR

  • Daniel LASAYGUES: Agri-food consulting engineer, Compagnie d'Aménagement des Coteaux de Gascogne (CACG)

 INTRODUCTION

Traceability of agri-food products has come a long way since it first entered common parlance, in terms of fields of application, types of information and the breadth of the field covered. Yesterday a differentiating process, today an indispensable, unavoidable and indisputable element.

Consumers are now demanding that all manufactured and industrial products, especially those in the agri-food sector, be traceable.

So much so that traceability as such is no longer "emphasized", but becomes almost implicit.

At the same time, information and communication technologies have also greatly evolved. We are now in the age of high-speed, connected, even "hyper-connected", everywhere, all the time. We consume information in real time, available all the time. Whether it's true or false isn't always the primary question, as availability and speed sometimes take precedence over precision, or even veracity.

These two trends converge: traceability is the keystone of the information system, and new technologies make it possible to provide users with a wealth of product information... but is it the right information? What are customers' real expectations? In this context, we need to be careful not to confuse data, information and communication.

You do not have access to this resource.

Exclusive to subscribers. 97% yet to be discovered!

You do not have access to this resource.
Click here to request your free trial access!

Already subscribed? Log in!

The Ultimate Scientific and Technical Reference

A Comprehensive Knowledge Base, with over 1,200 authors and 100 scientific advisors
+ More than 10,000 articles and 1,000 how-to sheets, over 800 new or updated articles every year
From design to prototyping, right through to industrialization, the reference for securing the development of your industrial projects

This article is included in

Eco-design and sustainable innovation

This offer includes:

Knowledge Base

Updated and enriched with articles validated by our scientific committees

Services

A set of exclusive tools to complement the resources

Practical Path

Operational and didactic, to guarantee the acquisition of transversal skills

Doc & Quiz

Interactive articles with quizzes, for constructive reading

Subscribe now!

Ongoing reading
Food traceability put to the test by the commentosphere: opportunity or threat?
Outline