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Petter Olsen 11/10/07 - © Fiskeriforskning - May be copied if source is acknowledged

FTSSI MeetingTraceability in general and

traceability drivers in Europe

Tokyo, October 11th 2007Petter Olsen, [email protected] researcher, FiskeriforskningNorwegian Institute of Fisheries and Aquaculture Research


Norwegian Institute of Fisheries and Aquaculture- 200 people in Tromsoe and Bergen- will be part of the new Norwegian joint food research institute from January 1st 2008


Definition - ISO 8402Traceability:Ability to trace the history, application or location of an entity by means of recorded identifications.

In a product sense, it may relate tothe origin of materials and partsthe product processing historythe distribution and location of the product

after delivery


Recorded identificationsWho makes the recorded identifications?

I record what I am doing, the resources used, the process parameters, etc. I have my own local database in the farm, vessel, plant, container, etc.

I get the data from previous links in the chain, the information is passed along with the fish/product. The data is transmitted on the label or in the accompanying documentation (paper, fax, E-mail, phone, etc.)


Two types of traceability Internal tracebility

Your own dataChain traceability

The data you get (and give)

Traceability control mechanisms

Methods and instruments used for authentication and testing that what we receive is what the documentation says.


What traceability is and isn’t:

Traceability does not refer to the (product) data itself. Having a good traceability system does not

necessarily mean recording a lot of (product) data.

Traceability does refer to your (systematic) ability to access the data you have stored. Good

traceability systems lets you access your data at any point in time quickly, unambiguously and

accumulated on any level.


Chain traceability visualization:

Information(systematicrecordings)

This is the traceability‘The ability to trace …’


Foodsafety

Trace

contamination,

Enable recall

Legislation

Common

Food Law§18, §19

Labeling

laws

Competitive-advantage

Building loyalty

Integration of

information-

systems

-unique ID

-transformations

-data carriers

-number series

-standards

RationalisationLabour/cost

reduction

Avoid re-punching

Optimalproduction

Industrialstatistics

Traceability drivers in the food sector:

Traceability

Certification(BRC, IFS,

ISO 22000, ..) Traceability

requirements

HACCP

Chaincommuni-

cation

Profiling

Feedback-

loops

Makeor buy



Europe: Common Food Law 178/2002• Applies to feed and all foodstuffs.• Each Food Business Operator must be able identify all who

delivered food, feed or ingredients that were used in the production. A mechanism must exist to make this information available to the authorities on request.

• Each Food Business Operator must be able identify all those theydeliver food, feed or ingredients to. A mechanism must exist to make this information available to the authorities on request.

• Food or feed items that will or might be sold in the EC should be labeled in accordance with sector specific requirements and the code on the label should facilitate identification and enable (targeted) recall.

More detailed sector-specific requirements will follow.


Important limitation• Without prejudice to more detailed rules, the Regulation does not

compel operators to establish a link (so called internal traceability) between incoming and outgoing products. Nor is there any requirement for records to be kept identifying how batches are split and combined within a business to create particular products or new batches.

• Food business operators should be encouraged to develop systems of internal traceability designed in relation to the nature of their activities (food processing, storage, distribution etc). The decision on the level of detail of the internal traceability should be left upon the business operator, commensurate with the nature and size of the food business.

GUIDANCE ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ARTICLES 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19 AND 20 OF REGULATION (EC) N° 178/2002 ON GENERAL FOOD LAW

CONCLUSIONS OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE ON THE FOOD CHAIN AND ANIMAL HEALTH.


Internal and chain traceability

Pro duct ion

Raw material batch 151

Raw material batch 156

Ingredient batch 915

Ingredient batch 838

Production batch 211

Production batch 212

Internal

Trade units 19768

Trade units 19432

Trade units 19001

Trade units 18851

Trade units 18771

Trade units 16518

Trade units 16515

Trade units 15510

Received

LU

Trade units 29702

Trade units 28866

Trade units 27654

Trade units 25009

Trade units 23174

Trade units 22651

Trade units 22199

Trade units 21551

Sent

LU


Not legally requiredLegally required Legally required


Chain traceabilityWith increasing information demands from buyers and consumers of

food products, it is no longer practical to transmit all the relevant data physically along with the product. A more sensible approach is to mark each package with a unique identifier, and then transmit or extract all the relevant information separately, often electronically.

if the buyer receives electronic messages containing traceability information in a dozen different formats, integrated and systematic access to the trace history will not be possible.

if every buyer develops a standard for how these messages should be constructed, the suppliers will have a difficult time meeting all the conflicting requirements.

Standards for the content of

this transmission are required!


Existing traceability standards• Codex Alimentarius, CAC/GL 60-2006, ”Principles for Traceability /

Product Tracing as a Tool Within a Food Inspection and Certification System”

• ISO, ISO/DIS 22005, ”Traceability in feed and food chain — General principles and basic requirements for system design and implementation”

• CIES, ”Implementing Traceability in the Food Supply Chain”• EurepGAP, ”EurepGAP General Regulations”, “EurepGAP Control

Points and Compliance Criteria”, “EurepGAP Checklist”• ECR, ECR Blue Book, ”Using Traceability in the Supply Chain to meet

Consumer Safety Expectations”• BRC, ”Technical Standard for Companies Supplying Retailer Branded

Food Products” (incorporating the old EFSIS standard)• IFS, ”International Food Standard”• GS1, ”The GS1 Traceability Standard”• TraceFish, ”Traceability of fishery products — Specification of the

information to be recorded in captured / farmed fish distribution chains”


TRACEFISH - målsetting

Vi vil etablere bred enighet blant industriog forskning i forhold til hvilke

sporbarhetsdata som (minimum) skalregistreres og overføres i kjedene for fisk

og fiskeprodukter, og for hvordan den elektroniske overføringen av disse

dataene skal foregå. Denne enigheten vilresultere i tre frivillige industristandarder

(CEN/CWA)


Captured fish standardC a t e g o r i s a t i o n

D a t a e l e m e n t D e s c r i p t i o n E x a m p l e sS h a l l S h o u l d M a y

P R O C E S S O R

C P R 0 1 F o o d b u s i n e s s I D N a m e a n d a d d r e s s o r G L N o f f o o d b u s i n e s st h a t o p e r a t e s p r o c e s s i n g e s t a b l i s h m e n t

T h e S e a f o o d C o , 2 2 P r i n c eS t r e e t , L o n d o n , S E 5 7 T K ,E n g l a n d

o r n 3 + n 1 3

x

C P R 0 2 P r o c e s s i n ge s t a b l i s h m e n t I D

N a m e , a d d r e s s a n d r e g i s t r a t i o n n u m b e r o rG L N o f p r o c e s s i n g e s t a b l i s h m e n t

G r i m s b y S e a f o o d , F i s h D o c kR o a d , G r i m s b y , G Y 1 9 S E ,E n g l a n d . G Y 7 8 9 U K

o r n 3 + n 1 3

x

C P R 0 3 G M P c e r t i f i c a t i o n N a m e s o f f i s h q u a l i t y o r f o o d s a f e t y G M Ps c h e m e s b y w h i c h p r o c e s s o r i s c e r t i f i e d E f s i s x

F O R E A C H U N I T R E C E I V E D

I d e n t i t i e s

C P R 0 4 U n i t I D S S C C i f r e c e i v e d a s a l o g i s t i c u n i t o r G T I N + i fr e c e i v e d a s a s e p a r a t e t r a d e u n i t

n 2 + n 1 8

o r n 2 + n 1 4 + A I ’ sx

C P R 0 5 T r a d e u n i t I D s i n l o g i s t i cu n i t

L i s t o f G T I N + s o f t h e t r a d e u n i t s t h a t m a k e u pt h e l o g i s t i c u n i t ( i f r e c e i v e d a s a l o g i s t i c u n i t ) L i s t o f n 2 + n 1 4 + A I s x

S o u r c e

C P R 0 6 P r e v i o u s f o o d b u s i n e s sI D

N a m e a n d a d d r e s s o r G L N o f f o o d b u s i n e s sf r o m w h o m t h e u n i t w a s r e c e i v e d

( v e s s e l , a u c t i o n o r t r a n s p o r t e r , e t c . )

T h e T r u c k i n g C o , G o o d sY a r d , L e e d s , L S 8 9 F H ,E n g l a n d

o r n 3 + n 1 3

x

C P R 0 7 D a t e a n d t i m e o fr e c e p t i o n

D a t e a n d t i m e o f t r a n s f e r f r o m p r e v i o u s f o o db u s i n e s s 2 0 0 2 - 0 6 - 2 8 T 0 8 : 3 0 x

C o n t r o l c h e c k s ( r e l a t e d t o t h e l o g i s t i c o r s e p a r a t e t r a d e u n i t s , a s a p p r o p r i a t e )

C P R 0 8 T e m p e r a t u r e o f u n i tw h e n r e c e i v e d T e m p e r a t u r e o f u n i t ° C + 2 . 0 ° C x

C P R 0 9 U n i t t e m p e r a t u r e r e c o r d T e m p e r a t u r e / t i m e l o g ( i f t h e r e i s a r e c o r d i n gd e v i c e a f f i x e d t o t h e u n i t )

S e r i e s o f t e m p e r a t u r e ( ° C ) /d a t e a n d t i m e p o i n t s x

C P R 1 0 F u r t h e r q u a l i t y c o n t r o lc h e c k s

R e c o r d s o f f u r t h e r q u a l i t y c o n t r o l c h e c k s( o r g a n o l e p t i c , p h y s i c a l , c h e m i c a l o rm i c r o b i o l o g i c a l ) , e a c h i n t h e f o r m o fd e s c r i p t i o n o f m e a s u r e m e n t a n d v a l u e , a r ea v a i l a b l e i n e l e c t r o n i c f o r m , o n p a p e r o r n o ta v a i l a b l e

P a p e r x

P r o d u c t i o n h i s t o r y ( f o r e a c h t r a d e u n i t )


TraceFish as ISO standard?• Proposal before ISO TC234 (“Fisheries and aquaculture”) for a new standard

that names relevant 'objects' (companies, places, food items) and 'attributes' (product and process properties) in the seafood industry.

• The new standard will as far as possible refer to existing standards when naming and defining each data element.

• The purpose of this standard is to ensure that information can be recorded in one link of the supply chain and sent to another link without systematic information loss

• None of the other standards are descriptive on content level. It is not possible to use any of the other standards to ensure that sender and receiver relate to the same parameters, named and measured in a uniform way.

• Previous experience with traceability implementation projects shows that the existence of such a standard significantly simplifies the process. Where no such standards exist, often ad-hoc standards have to be made before implementation can take place.

• Similar standards can, and probably should, be developed in other food sectors.

• The CWA TraceFish standards will be a starting point.

• Japan should participate?


TraceFood and TraceCore XML• Based on TraceFish, but applies to food in general.• Common core and extensions for each food sector. ”Old” TraceFish

is updated and becomes ”TraceFood – Fish”; several otherextensions are developed.

• Common core = generic recommendation for implementing traceability (GTP) + generic vocabulary (ontology) + commonelektronic language for information interchange (TraceCore XML)

• Each sector-specific extension = spesific recommendation for implementing traceability (GTP) + spesific vocabulary + spesic data dictioray that extends the TraceCore XML.

• GS1 / SGTIN unique numbering (like TraceFish)• Can be viewed as a particular implementation of GS1

recommendations.• Supported by all EU-funded food traceability projects as well as

numerous other projects.• Sintef responsible for the GTP; Fiskeriforskning responsible for the

TraceCore XML and through TRACE overall responsibility for the whole TraceFood Framework.

• More information on: www.tracefood.org• Technical discussion on: tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/TraceCore/


www.trace.eu.org

www.tracefood.org


Same date/time

Biggest challenge - identificationProduction

Same raw materials

Batch 112

Same production run

Shipping

Same number on all?

Batch 112

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Batch 112

Batch 112Batch 112



Batch 112

Batch 112Batch 112Batch 112

Batch 112Batch 112Batch 112

Batch 112Batch 112

What’s the problem?



My box has the number 112 on it ...

• Where was this box on October 12th 2007 at 14.00?

• What is the highest temperature this box has ever been subjected to?

• I have taken some sample tests of thecontents of this box. How do I record the factthat the samples were taken from this exactbox, and not from any of the other boxesidentified in the same way?

• I have another box that also is identified by the number 112. Did those two boxes take thesame route to get to me?


Conclusions:

The TraceFood Framework is there; go forth and implement!

• For authorities and to some degree for consumers, food safety is the main driver for traceability.

• For the food industry, rationalisation, branding and competitive advantage are the main drivers for traceability.

• Chain traceability means information transfer between companies, countries and languages. For this to work, we need international standards defining the name and content of the information being transferred.

• TraceCore XML is a technical standard for the coding and information transfer. It is supported by all EU food traceability projects, and it is the backbone of an increasing number of implementation projects.

• The TraceFood Framework contains the TraceCore XML, and also sector-specific standards for parameter names and contents. The TraceFish standard is now part of the TraceFood Framework, and standardization work is just now starting under ISO TC234 to make this an ISO standard.

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