CWA 14659:2003
(Main)Traceability of fishery products - Specification of the information to be recorded in farmed fish distribution chains
Traceability of fishery products - Specification of the information to be recorded in farmed fish distribution chains
This document specifies the information to be recorded in distribution chains in order to establish the
traceability of farmed fishery products.
It specifies how fishery products traded are to be identified and the information to be generated and held on
those products by each of the food businesses that physically trade them through the distribution chains.
It is applicable to the distribution for human consumption of farmed finfish and their products, from breeding
through to retailers or caterers. The CWA specify also data about ingredients brought in by processors and
producers.
Together with CWA 14660 and the technical specification on www.tracefish.org it provides a basis for
implementing chain traceability in the fish industry.
Traceability of fishery products - Specification of the information to be recorded in farmed fish distribution chains
General Information
Standards Content (Sample)
SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-julij-2004
Traceability of fishery products - Specification of the information to be recorded in
farmed fish distribution chains
Traceability of fishery products - Specification of the information to be recorded in farmed
fish distribution chains
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: CWA 14659:2003
ICS:
65.150 Ribolov in ribogojstvo Fishing and fish breeding
67.120.30 Ribe in ribji proizvodi Fish and fishery products
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.
CEN
CWA 14659
WORKSHOP
February 2003
AGREEMENT
ICS 65.150; 67.120.30
English version
Traceability of fishery products - Specification of the information
to be recorded in farmed fish distribution chains
This CEN Workshop Agreement has been drafted and approved by a Workshop of representatives of interested parties, the constitution of
which is indicated in the foreword of this Workshop Agreement.
The formal process followed by the Workshop in the development of this Workshop Agreement has been endorsed by the National
Members of CEN but neither the National Members of CEN nor the CEN Management Centre can be held accountable for the technical
content of this CEN Workshop Agreement or possible conflicts with standards or legislation.
This CEN Workshop Agreement can in no way be held as being an official standard developed by CEN and its Members.
This CEN Workshop Agreement is publicly available as a reference document from the CEN Members National Standard Bodies.
CEN members are the national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece,
Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and
United Kingdom.
EUROPEAN COMMITTEE FOR STANDARDIZATION
COMITÉ EUROPÉEN DE NORMALISATION
EUROPÄISCHES KOMITEE FÜR NORMUNG
Management Centre: rue de Stassart, 36 B-1050 Brussels
© 2003 CEN All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CEN national Members.
Ref. No. CWA 14659:2003 E
Contents Page
Foreword. 3
Introduction . 3
1 Scope . 6
2 Normative references . 6
3 Terms and definitions. 6
4 Symbols and abbreviations . 7
5 Information Requirements for Farmed Fish.7
5.1 The Identification of the units traded. 7
5.2 The recording of information. 8
5.3 Breeders. 8
5.4 Hatcheries. 10
5.5 Fish Farms. 13
5.6 Live fish transporters . 16
5.7 Processors. 18
5.8 Transporters and Storers. 22
5.9 Traders and wholesalers. 24
5.10 Retailers and caterers . 27
5.11 Fish Feed production . 28
5.12 Bringing in Supplies from Outwith the Tracefish Standard . 31
Annex A (informative) The philosophy of the Tracefish scheme . 35
Bibliography . 41
Foreword
This CEN Workshop Agreement has been drafted and approved by a Workshop of representatives of
interested parties on November 8th. 2002, the constitution of which was supported by CEN following the
public call for participation made on March 8th. 2002.
A list of the individuals and organizations, which supported the technical consensus represented by the CEN
Workshop Agreement, is available to purchasers from the CEN Management Centre. These organizations
were drawn from the following incomplete list of economic sectors: Fish industry, Fish farming industry, IT
industry, Research institutions, NGO’s, Retailers, Regulatory authorities, EU Commission.
The formal process followed by the Workshop in the development of the CEN Workshop Agreement has been
endorsed by the National Members of CEN. However neither the National Members of CEN nor the CEN
Management Centre can be held accountable for the technical content of the CEN Workshop Agreement or
possible conflict with standards or legislation. This CEN Workshop Agreement can in no way be held as being
an official standard developed by CEN and it’s members.
This CEN Workshop Agreement is publicly available as a reference document from the National Members of
CEN :
AENOR, AFNOR, BSI, COSMT, DIN, DS, ELOT, IBN, IPQ, IST, MSA, MSNT, MSZT, NEN, NSAI, NSF,
ON, SEE, SIS, SFS, SNV, SUTN, UNI.
Comments or suggestions from the users of the CEN Workshop Agreement are welcome and should be
addressed to the CEN Management Centre.
Introduction
There are increasing demands for detailed information on the nature and origin of food products. Traceability
is becoming a legal and commercial necessity. Transmission of all the required information physically with the
products would, in many instances, be impracticable and so the use of information technology is preferable.
The ISO definition of traceability concerns the ability to trace the history, application and location of that which
is under consideration, and for products this can include the origin of materials and parts and processing
history. Traceability includes not only the principal requirement to be able to physically trace products through
the distribution chain, from origin to destination and vice versa, but also to be able to provide information on
what they are made of and what has happened to them. These further aspects of traceability are important in
relation to food safety, quality and labelling.
The Tracefish concept is an electronic system of chain traceability. It was developed under the patronage of
the European Commission in its Concerted Action project QLK1-2000-00164.
Participation in the Tracefish scheme is voluntary but in order for it to function, there have to be agreed
protocols for the system. For this purpose, three specifications have been developed:
- an information specification for captured fish distribution chains i.e. what information should be generated
and held by the food businesses;
- a similar information specification for farmed fish distribution chains;
- and a technical specification for the electronic encoding of the data.
The information specifications are CEN Workshop Agreements and the web-based technical specification is
published on www.tracefish.org
The key to the operation of the scheme is the labelling of each unit of goods traded, whether of raw materials
or finished products, with a unique ID. This is to be done by the food business that creates each unit.
Businesses that transform units, such as processors who convert the units of raw materials received into the
products dispatched, create new units and must give them new IDs.
Each of the food businesses that create or physically trade in those units, throughout the distribution chains
from catcher or farmer through to retailer or caterer, are to generate and hold the information necessary for
traceability. The information is to be held on computer databases, keyed to the unit IDs.
The information remains in the ownership of the food business that generated it but is available when required
by law for the purposes of traceability (in the event of a food safety problem) or by commercial agreement
between businesses. The means of communicating the information is standardised so that it can be readily
accessed from business to business through the distribution chains, when required.
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This is a development beyond the forthcoming EU legal requirement, coming into force January 1 2005, for
each food business to independently record sources of supplies and destinations of foods, but builds on that
basis.
Commercial arrangements for businesses to communicate information through the distribution chains are to
be encouraged, particularly for the information desired by the trade to be visible at the various transaction
points in the chains, but that is not the subject of this document.
The method of identifying the units of goods traded is based on the EAN.UCC system that is already in use
throughout the world. The information is keyed to unique IDs given to the individual trade units (e.g. boxes of
fish or cases of products) but the scheme also accommodates trade in logistic units made up of numbers of
trade units (e.g. pallets of boxes or cases). Businesses that create logistic units have to label them with a
logistic unit ID and also record the IDs of the component trade units.
The Tracefish scheme does not demand perfect traceability, i.e. that a particular retail product should be
traceable back to a single vessel or farm and batch of origin, or vice versa from origin to destination.
Pragmatically it is recognised that mixing of units is likely to occur at a number of stages in the distribution
chains, e.g. in grading at auction markets prior to sale and in the processing of raw materials into products.
Where such mixing occurs, the food business is transforming the trade units. The requirement for traceability
is that the business records the IDs of the received trade units that may be input to each created trade unit,
and vice versa. The particular product is then traceable back to a finite number of vessels or farms and
batches of origin, and vice versa.
The information itemised in the specifications for recording by the food businesses includes:
– the fundamental information necessary to identify and physically trace the products, that shall be
recorded;
– specific information that is required by law in relation to food safety, quality and labelling, together with
important elements of commercially desirable information related to those matters, that should be
recorded;
– and further specific and commercial information considered to be of sufficient relevance to be included in
the specifications, that may be recorded.
Given the enormous variety of fishery products and of their distribution chains that operate within and between
different countries, and varying legal requirements, the information specifications cannot itemise all the
information that may possibly be required in every situation. The specifications provide a generic basis for
traceability. Flexibility is allowed for businesses to record further information, in their own non-standardised
files, but keyed to the unit IDs.
Although virtually every distribution chain is different, they all appear to be made up of a number of
characteristic components or building blocks. The types of business identified in this document for farmed fish
distribution chains are:
breeders;
hatcheries;
fish farms;
live fish transporters;
processors;
transporters and stores;
retailers;
fish feed producers.
Any given farmed fish distribution chain may be made up of some or all of these components but not
necessarily in the sequence listed.
The information specifications separately tabulate the information to be recorded by each of these types of
business. Some businesses may carry out the functions of more than one of the types listed, for example
distribution businesses may act as wholesalers and as transporters, in which case those businesses must
record the relevant information requirements for each of the functions carried out.
There are limitations to this approach, for example it does not fit to the specialised requirements of live bivalve
mollusc distribution chains, and so this initial information specification is limited in scope to the distribution for
fish feed and human consumption of farmed fish and their products. The captured and farmed fish information
specifications are substantially the same from processing onward.
Pragmatically it is recognised that some supplies of fish products and supplies of ingredients, etc, will come
from outside of the Tracefish domain and may lack the required IDs and information records. To
accommodate this, a business that brings in fish and materials from outside of the Tracefish domain is
required to generate and hold the key information necessary for the traceability of the units brought in, and if
they are to be traded on, to label those units with the required IDs.
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