FURTHER READING AND TRAINING MATERIAL

A good place to read some more about traceability initiatives from many different perspective is the book 'Food Traceability Around the World' edited by I.G. Smith and A Furness. The book is available on the web site of the Global Food Traceability Forum.

What traceability information should I capture?

• EU standards for the farmed and caught fish industries; the so called "TraceFish" standards. The TraceFish standards describe what information is it recommended that companies need to record in fish supply chains to achieve traceability.

Details of the TraceFish standards can be found here.

• CEN14659 (2003) CEN Workshop Agreement. Traceability of Fishery products. Specification of the information to be recorded in caught fish distribution chains., European Committee for Standardization.

• CEN14660 (2003) CEN Workshop Agreement. Traceability of Fishery products. Specification of the information to be recorded in farmed fish distribution chains. European Committee for standardization.

• The international Organisation for standardisation (ISO) has a standard for traceability it is ‘ISO 22005:2007 Traceability in the feed and food chain -- General principles and basic requirements for system design and implementation’

• ISO 22005:2007 gives the principles and specifies the basic requirements for the design and implementation of a feed and food traceability system. It can be applied by an organization operating at any step in the feed and food chain. It is intended to be flexible enough to allow feed and food organizations to achieve identified objectives.

The traceability system is a technical tool to assist an organization to conform with its defined objectives, and is applicable when necessary to determine the history or location of a product or its relevant components. More information can be found at ISO

• GS1 are responsible for the ever prevalent barcodes and unique number series. They also have training material available regarding traceability. You can read more about their traceability initiatives at GS1 Traceability Standard

Sector specific activities have begun and papers such as the following should provide an interesting starting place for further standardization initiatives,

• Donnelly, K.A-M., Karlsen, K.M., Olsen, P.and van der Roest, J. (2008) ‘Creating standardised data lists for traceability: a study of honey processing’, Int. J. Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp.283–291.

What experience already exists with regards to traceability in the supply chain?

As part of the 'Peter' project a number of different lectures were give which may be of interest to operations actors these include the following

• The needs of the small business

• Traceability in Thailand and Malaysia

• Farm level traceability and Traceability systems

• The importance of national and international standards