TraceFish- project initiated by EU coordinated by Fiskeriforskning (Nofima): the task of the project is to develop standards about what kinds of information should follow products of farmed and wild-caught fish, respectively, and how these data should be coded and transferred electronically.
As per this project, it is mandatory for a fish farm to keep records of supplier and identity of raw materials, assigning a unique ID, and making records of which product go to which customer. Only identifiers of raw materials and finished product are sent to next level in the supply chain.
According to latest reports, ISO committee is commencing project to develop standards for “Traceability of captured Fish and Farmed Fish”, final version of which will be delivered by 2011.
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Do you know if RFID technology is being used for this, and if the information is being kept of individual fish themselves, or at least pallettes, etc?
Given that the human food industry as a whole is moving closer to more regulated global supply chain standards, the companies that are doing well are leading the race in standard setting.
Here’s a link to the EU report that was put together in 2002 and formed the basis of these initiatives;
http://www.gs1.org/docs/traceability/GS1_fish_traceability.pdf
Given the horror stories we read about fish and pollution – http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/04/19/1145344153516.html – it’s no wonder there’s such a demand for traceability.