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3. Traceability limits
When a company in the food sector wishes to implement traceability for its products, it must take into account several external constraints:
regulatory ;
contractual (customer demand) ;
(trade-off between risk and cost of solutions) ;
consumer wishes.
Consequently, the methods used to achieve the same result vary from one industry to another, and especially from one link in the chain to another.
Professionals consider traceability to have two distinct aspects:
information flow routing mechanisms, which must be designed to ensure that there is no on-line loss of information at each interface, i.e. between successive links in the same...
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Traceability limits
Coordinating regulatory measures and collective initiatives
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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