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Yves PEURIÈRE: General Manager, Traceability Division
INTRODUCTION
in collaboration with Joël SARRAILLON, Julien VINAY and Jean-Michel LOUBRY
Traceability has become a familiar concept to consumers. The word has even become part of everyday language.
The quest for safety is omnipresent in our daily lives (health, agri-food, etc.). Consumers and citizens want to be reassured, and are ready to take legal action if they are concerned by a fault or a potential or proven risk. Businesses, organizations and governments are faced with new threats in their macro-environment: economic aggression (economic intelligence, counterfeiting) or physical aggression (mafia-style banditry, terrorism). The need to prevent risk is omnipresent. Traceability has thus become a key concern for many companies and organizations.
Over and above risk management, it's a genuine strategic approach leading to the implementation of traceability systems within the company, with the aim of ensuring competitiveness and sustainability, and contributing to the creation of value.
Awareness of the need for traceability has generated a great deal of creativity in technology, creativity that was not very well organized at the outset, but which is tending to take shape in terms of standards, interoperable system architectures and inherent security.
In many cases, the response to a need leads to a multi-faceted traceability system combining identification, authentication, localization and security, and opening up the prospect of new associated services.
This dossier looks at the technologies that support identification and authentication functions.
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Identification and authentication technologies for a traceability system
Traceability
Economic data
The French market for human identification techniques – or biometrics – broke down as follows in 2006 (source APS magazine):
fingerprint: 48% ;
facial morphology: 12% ;
palm imprint: 11% ;
iris: 9% ;
voice recognition: 6%.
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References
Standardization
- Technical prevention and deterrence in the fight against counterfeiting (protection of intellectual property rights) – Specification of a generic framework describing product authentication, traceability and control arrangements dedicated to anti-counterfeiting - AC Z60-100 - 02-06
- Quality management systems – Basic principles and vocabulary - ISO 9000 - 2005
- Management environnemental (série de normes) - ISO 14000...
Regulations
Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of January 28, 2002 laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety, OJ L31, 1 er December 2002.
Directive 2002/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council...
Organizations
Association française de normalisation (Afnor) http://www.afnor.fr
Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL) http://www.cnil.fr
EPCglobal http://www.epcglobalinc.org
...Manufacturers, designers
(non-exhaustive list)
ATT Advanced Track & Trace http://www.att-fr.com
Nano-H http://www.nano-h.com
Newtone http://www.newtone.fr
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