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Global Food Traceability Center Library

- Food Traceability: Current Status and Future Opportunities Issue Paper
  Investigates and discusses the development and use of various technologies and infrastructures to enable the traceability of food products, as well as the history of such platforms, ongoing U.S. food traceability regulatory initiatives, and the likelihood of commercial scale deployment. (2023, PDF)
- The FDA’s Food Traceability Rule Moves Industry Beyond “One-Up, One-Down” Traceability for Certain Foods
  Finalized in November 2022, the new rule will enhance the speed and accuracy of tracebacks to prevent lengthy, broad-scope recalls by advancing industry’s adoption of IFT-recommended, events-based traceability best practices. (2023, PDF)
- Towards Traceable Flour: Digitizing the Grains & Cereals Supply Chain White Paper. Proposed mapping of the traceability framework to the grains and cereals supply chain, which can exploit technologies that have recently emerged and are commercially available. (2019, PDF)
- Specifications to Implement a Technology Architecture for Enabling Interoperable Food Traceability
  30+ page document presents the detailed concept for an interoperable traceability technology architecture that will allow implementation of interoperable food traceability practices on a global scale. (2017, PDF)
- Project to Develop an Interoperable Seafood Traceability Technology Architecture Issue Brief
  Discusses determinants that are important to the collection, management, and sharing of traceability-related data and information in firms, along supply chains, and across industries. (2016, PDF)
- Collaborating Toward Interoperable Full-Chain Food Traceability (2017, JFS Special Supplement, Open Access)
- Assessing the Value and Role of Seafood Traceability from an Entire Value-Chain Perspective (2015, CRFSFS, PDF)
- Comparison of Global Food Traceability Regulations and Requirements (2014, CRFSFS, PDF)
- Traceability (Product Tracing) in Food Systems: An IFT Report Submitted to the FDA, Volume 2: Cost Considerations and Implications (2010, CRFSFS, PDF)
- Traceability (Product Tracing) in Food Systems: An IFT Report Submitted to the FDA, Volume 1: Technical Aspects and Recommendations (2010, CRFSFS, PDF)

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