Traceability in accordance with mandatory texts
Traceability of food and non-food products: extent of constraints

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Traceability in accordance with mandatory texts
Traceability of food and non-food products: extent of constraints

Author : Henri TEMPLE

Publication date: November 10, 2008 | Lire en français

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1. Traceability in accordance with mandatory texts

From our point of view, traceability of a product, whether food or non-food, and its components, means being able to identify, with precision, its origin and then its path along the economic chain, from the initial producer to the end consumer, from stage to stage, whatever the import, processing, packaging or distribution phases.

In Mesopotamia, cereal jars were sealed with clay balls marked with the owner's name in cuneiform, making it possible to decipher the oldest form of writing. As for the stoppers on Roman amphoras, they bore the marks of the merchants and their port address.

The temptation for the trade to cheat on the origin of a product is as old as the idea of inferring from the origin of these products certain specific qualities, a reputation justifying...

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