This document discusses food traceability, including definitions, functional roles, common features, and coding systems. It summarizes key aspects of traceability including tracking food through production and distribution, identifying origins, and supporting food safety, labeling, and risk assessment. It also outlines the most commonly used global traceability standards, including the GS1 system of numbering and identification codes that can track items, locations, logistics units and more through the supply chain.

1. Food Traceability
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2. Definition
“The ability to trace and follow a food,
feed, food-producing animal or
substance through all stages of
production and distribution”
(EU Regulation Food Law : 8/5/01)
“The ability to trace the history,
application or location of an entity by
means of recorded information
(ISO 8402:1992)

3. • Designed to track the flow of product
or product attributes through the
production process or supply chain
• Identification of the origin of food
and feed ingredients and food
sources
Traceability

5. Functional roles of
traceability
1. Food Safety incidents
2. Food residue surveillance
programmes
3. Risk assessment from food exposure
4. Enforcement of labelling claims
5. Fraud
6. Food wastage
7. Food hygiene

6. Common Features
Featur
es
Item associated
information
Item
identification
Communication
Process based
information

7. Coding systems
• EAN.UCC system of numbering and
identification
• Also includes identification of locations
and services
• Six standard numbering structures
comprise EAN.UCC system
• *EAN International/European Article
Number
• *UCC Universal Code Council

8. Six Numbering Structures
1. GTIN – Global Trade Item Number
2. SSCC – Serial Shipping Container
Code
3. GLN – Global Location Number
4. GRAI – Global returnable asset
identifier
5. GIAI – Global Individual Asset
identifier
6. GSRN – Global Service Relation
Number

9. 1. GTIN – Global Trade Item
Number
• Family of four unique numbering
system
• EAN/UC-14, 13,12,8
• Check digit – calculated using s/w for
checking errors

10. 2. SSCC – Serial Shipping Container
Code
• 18 – digit code used to identify
logistical units.

11. 3. GLN – Global Location Number
• The GLN can identify a company’s
physical locations, for example a
store, a warehouse, or a berth in a
port

12. 4. GRAI – Global returnable asset
identifier
• This GS1 Key is especially suitable for
the management of reusable
transport items, transport
equipment, and tools.

13. 5. GIAI – Global Individual Asset
identifier
• Companies can apply a GIAI on any
asset to uniquely identify and
manage that asset
• This could be a computer, desk,
vehicle, piece of transport
equipment, or spare part

14. 6. GSRN – Global Service Relation
Number
• Used by services organisations to
identify their relationships with
individual service providers
• doctors who work for a hospital

15. Item attendant Technologies
1. Data carrier technologies
2. Locating technologies
3. Communication technologies -
WLAN
4. Sensory technologies –
exploiting developments in
sensory and telemetry
technologies
5. Security technologies – for
fraud prevention and security at
packaging level Hologram mark

16. Data Carrier Technologies
Linear barcodes
Two dimensional &
composite codes Magnetic data carriers
Radio frequency identification(RFID)
data carriers
Contact memory
data carriers

17. 2. Locating technologies
Locating
technologi
es
EANCOM
GPS -
Global
positioning
systems
RTLS –
Real Time
Locating
Systems

18. Most Popular Traceability
system
• Formerly Created 1977 EAN, 2005
GS1
• GS1 not-for-profit organization
• a UN recognized NGO
• User-driven and user-governed

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