Traceability - The Way To Food Safety

摘要

Consumer safety has become one of the most critical and priority issues for the food supply chain. Despite the best efforts by fresh produce supply chain participants food safety problems may never be completely excluded. However, an effective and cost-efficient traceability system and pinpoint such a problem to a specific region, packing facility, group of growers, a grower or even a field, rather than an entire commodity group. Narrowing the potential scope of a problem is in line with legal requirements and can reduce the negative economic impact on the supply chain participants who are not responsible for its occurrence.