Food Safety Traceability

• Main Authors: Wei, Yimin, Guo, Boli, Liu, Hongyan, Wei, Shuai, Zhang, Jianrong
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2017
• Subjects: Chemicals and Drugs; Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition; Health and Medical Administration; Health Services Administration; Medicine and Health Sciences; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Pharmacy Administration; Policy and Regulation; Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences; Public Health; Avian flu
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/usfda/14; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/usfda/article/1004/viewcontent/Wei_FSIC_2017_Food_Safety_Traceability.pdf

With globalized economics, it is becoming more frequent to trade food across country and regional borders, which leads to expanding and spreading of all kinds of food safety incidents and hazards. Mad cow disease, foot and mouth disease, avian flu and other zoonotic diseases pose a grave threat to food safety and human health, causing serious economic losses for food industries and causing social panic at the same time. In order to reduce the losses caused by such serious zoonotic diseases, as well as to ensure food safety, many countries have started to implement food safety traceability systems. The European Union has the most advanced regulations on food traceability. EU regulation No. 178/2002 requires all food products within the European Union be trackable and traceable, starting from January 1, 2005, otherwise they cannot be sold [1]. The EU also has other regulations targeting specific food products, such as regulation No. 1224/2009 for fisheries and aquaculture products, No. 931/2011 for food business operators with respect to food of animal origin, regulation No. 1337/2013 on the country of origin or place of provenance for fresh, chilled and frozen meat from swine, sheep, goats and poultry, and Nos. 1829/2003 and 1830/2003 relating to the authorization, labelling, and traceability of genetically modified food and feed. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires all US and foreign facilities engaged in food production, processing, packaging, or managing people or animal consumption must register with the FDA prior to 12 December 2003 to ensure food safety tracking and tracing. The Bioterrorism Act of 2002 (BT Act), and the record keeping requirements contained within, represented a major step forward in the implementation of a product tracing system for FDA‐regulated food products. This Act requires a paper trail documenting food distribution, to allow determination of the source of contamination in the event of a foodborne illness outbreak. The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was ...