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Daniel NAIRAUD: Head of the Quality and Control Coordination Office - Direction générale de l'alimentation, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries - Secretary of the French National Food Council (CNA)
INTRODUCTION
In recent times, questions about food, product quality, safety and new production techniques have multiplied. At a general level, this means that public and private players need to put in place measures to guarantee a high level of consumer protection:
Firstly, a comprehensive risk analysis system must ensure that citizens live in a society where the risks that could affect them are recognized, assessed and effectively reduced to a socially accepted level by decision-makers;
secondly, to prevent health crises and ensure that consumers are as fully and transparently informed as possible, we need to speed up the organization of the food chain, which in turn means speeding up the introduction of traceability.
In the minds of consumers, traceability has become a magic word, even if they don't necessarily use it when making a purchase. For them, traceability is an element of reassurance, but it must be conceived not as an element of product quality, but as an intrinsic component of system quality.
It's remarkable that while a great deal of work is underway in 2003, particularly in companies, traceability is still generally in its infancy, and remains a corporate rather than a collective strategy.
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Definitions and objectives of traceability
References
Regulations
European regulations
EC directive 92/59 of June 29, 1992 on general product safety, amended by EC directive 2001/95 (JOCE L228 9920811; p.24-30).
Directive EC 89/396 of June 14, 1989, as amended, on indications or marks identifying...
Standardization
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French Standards Association (Afnor)
- Agriculture and food industry – Guidelines for establishing a traceability approach in the agricultural and food sectors (documentation booklet). - FD V01-020 - 7-2002
- Lignes directrices relatives à l'application de l'ISO 9001-2000...
Organizations
Traceability
EAN International. (European Article Numbering) http://www.ean-int.org
GENCOD-EAN France http://www.eannet-france.org
Geo Trace Agri (geographical traceability consortium)...
Suppliers
(non-exhaustive list)
A3Dis (identification solutions) http://www.a3dis.com
Agreen Tech (traceability and quality management systems for agri-food products) http://www.agreentech.com
Agreval (food traceability solution...
Websites
In addition to the websites already mentioned, readers may also wish to consult the following (non-exhaustive list)
Tracebio http://www.tracebio.org (agri-food traceability database)
French traceability
http://www.tracabilite.fr
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