Traceability at a glance
The concept on food traceability started in 1994 followed by some food alerts and food recalls3 which occurred in a lengthy period and various locations that grow concern of consumers to question the safety of the food that they consumed. An earlier definition was provided by International Standard of Organization (ISO) that defined traceability as the ability for the retrieval of the history and use or location of an article or an activity through a registered identification (ISO 8402, 1994). Later, a more concrete description provide by the European Union through Regulation (EC) No. 178 / 2002 defining traceability as the ability trace and follow a food, feed, food – producing animal or substance intended to be, or expected to be incorporated into food or feed, through all stages of production and distribution4. The widely accepted and common methodology employed for food traceability is based on one-up-onedown principle (European Commission, 2002).
There are two type of traceability; backward traceability and forward traceability. Backward traceability implies on tracing products back to requirements to ensure that the requirements have been kept current with design, code or tests. Forward traceability performs tracing activities from the requirements to the products to ensure the completeness of the
Traceability at a glance The concept on food traceability started in 1994 followed by some food alerts and food recalls3 which occurred in a lengthy period and various locations that grow concern of consumers to question the safety of the food that they consumed. An earlier definition was provided by International Standard of Organization (ISO) that defined traceability as the ability for the retrieval of the history and use or location of an article or an activity through a registered identification (ISO 8402, 1994). Later, a more concrete description provide by the European Union through Regulation (EC) No. 178 / 2002 defining traceability as the ability trace and follow a food, feed, food – producing animal or substance intended to be, or expected to be incorporated into food or feed, through all stages of production and distribution4. The widely accepted and common methodology employed for food traceability is based on one-up-onedown principle (European Commission, 2002). There are two type of traceability; backward traceability and forward traceability. Backward traceability implies on tracing products back to requirements to ensure that the requirements have been kept current with design, code or tests. Forward traceability performs tracing activities from the requirements to the products to ensure the completeness of the
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