Traceability system

LITERATURE REVIEW

TRACEABILITY SYSTEM

Introducing Advanced Food Traceability Systems

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Date : April 30 , 2010

Word Count : 1 ,375 1 .0 Introduction

With the emergence of several food safety issues worldwide due to the increasingly global nature of supply chains and food products availability on a multi-country scale , the need for more affordable advanced food traceability systems has become urgent mainly for health reasons (Regattierri , Gamberi Manzini 2007 , pp . 348 Harlow

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. 137 . Public and government concerns about the health risks associated with genetically modified organisms , food origins , food contamination and food quality are increasingly making the consideration of affordable advanced food traceability systems more seriously (Regattierri , Gamberi Manzini 2007 , pp . 348 MacAonghus 2003 ,

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. 396 . Traceability is defined as the ability to track a product batch and its history .from harvest through transport , storage processing , distribution and sales (Moe 1998 ,

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2 .0 General Traceability Systems Overview

A food traceability system is basically based on the following elements [a] Product identification ' or Calibration ' [b] Data to trace or Data ' [c] Product routing ' or IT and programming ' and [d] Traceability tools ' or Product (Regattierri , Gamberi Manzini 2007 , pp . 349-350 Moe 1998 ,

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Moe (1998 ) has combined several concepts in food manufacturing and provided the first insight...