After a series of food safety crises during the 1990s, regulators, producers, and retailers alike are trying to regain consumer confidence by redesigning legislation and quality-assurance programs. These programs focus on process innovation, traceability, and identity preservation of products. This paper reviews current developments in the European food and retail industry. Hypotheses on the li...

It is relevant for traceability systems to have a common structure information exchange. Without it, these lose much of their utility as they will only be usable internally and reduced capacity add value products manage recalls. Based on extensive literature review, non-proprietary framework was developed. This encompasses whole food supply chains aims maintain records quality safety...