Traceability, Liability, and Incentives for Food Safety and Quality

Traceability, Inspection, and Food Safety

Traceability exists in many food supply chains for valid economic reasons, one of which is improving food safety and quality. Some politicians and consumer groups are calling for increased identity preservation in systems where traceability has not yet been adopted. In this paper, we explore the implications of adding traceability to a food supply chain that already includes an inspection proto...

Food Safety Traceability

ENHANCING FOOD SAFETY AND QUALITY THROUGH ISOTOPIC TECHNIQUES FOR FOOD TRACEABILITY A. Introduction

Producing safe and high quality food is a prerequisite to ensure consumer health and successful domestic and international trade, and is critical to the sustainable development of national agricultural resources. Systems to trace food or feed products through specified stages of production, processing and distribution play a key role in assuring food safety. Such traceability systems are typica...

Liability and Traceability in Agri-food Supply Chains

Improving food safety, reducing the impacts of food safety problems, and providing a means to verify food quality attributes are driving the development of traceability initiatives in agri-food systems. Numerous and varied examples exist, from regulatory traceability initiatives, to industry-wide livestock traceability programmes, to individual supply-chain systems that combine traceability wit...

Traceability , food safety and industry reputation ∗

Sometimes authorities are unable to identify the origin of a tainted food product. In such cases, food recalls or warnings are often applied to all suppliers which means that the recall applies to suppliers of products that do not contribute to the contamination. One benefit of traceability is to enable more targeted recalls, identifying more specifically the product’s origin. In this article, ...