Implementation of traceability is obligatory for all operators in the food chain in the EU since 1st January 2005. A business must now be able to identify all of its food, food products and feed suppliers and all the businesses to which they have supplied food or feed to. The information needs to be systematically stored, and to be made available to inspection authorities upon request. A proposal to introduce a similar system was adopted in the USA (Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Act of 2002).

In order to guide businesses, a cross-functional working group within CIES has developed Traceability Guidelines. These Guidelines contain specifications on processes, an explanation of how to align data and how to implement your system.

Click here to download the document ‘Implementing Traceability in the Food Supply Chain’

For more information on CIES activities on RFID, Data Synchronisation & Traceability, please contact Sharon JESKE.