SIST CWA 14659:2004
(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
SIST CWA 14659:2004
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
SIST CWA 14659:2004 en
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.
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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.
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© 2003 CEN All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CEN national Members.
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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
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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;
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- 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.
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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.
CEN Workshop Agreements are not tablets of stone. They can be revisited, amended and extended. These
initial specifications could be extended in the future to include further detail and the requirements of more
specialised distribution chains, including those for shellfish and for fish meal and oil.
These specifications will provide a basis for IT service providers to develop business solutions (applications)
for the trade. The information specifications do not preclude the use of paper systems, although the obvious
benefits of business efficiency, including rapid communication, will be lost.
Further information on the background to the development of the Tracefish scheme and on its philosophy is
given in informative annexes A.
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1 Scope
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.
2 Normative references
This CWA incorporates by dated or undated reference, provisions from other publications. These normative
references are cited at the appropriate places in the text and the publications are listed hereafter. For dated
references, subsequent amendments to or revisions of any of these publications apply to this CWA only when
incorporated in it by amendment or revision. For undated references the latest edition of the publication
referred to applies (including amendments).
CWA 14660 Traceability of fish products. Specification of Information to be recorded in captured fish
distribution chains
www.tracefish.org Traceability of fishery products — Specification on the information to be recorded in farmed
fish distribution chains
3 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this CWA, the following terms and definitions apply:
3.1
traceability
ability to trace the history, application or location of that which is under consideration
NOTE when considering products traceability can relate to
the origin of materials and parts;
the processing history.
(NS-EN ISO 9000:2000)
3.2
trade unit
any item (product or service) upon which there is a need to retrieve pre-defined information and that may be
priced, or ordered, or invoiced at any point in any supply chain. This definition covers services and products,
all of which may have pre-defined characteristics (2002 General EAN.UCC Specifications Section 2.1.1.1)
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3.3
logistic unit
an item of any composition established for transport and/or storage that needs to be managed through the
supply chain (2002 General EAN.UCC Specifications Section 2.2.1)
4 Symbols and abbreviations
AI – EAN.UCC system Application Identifier
EAN – EAN International
EAN.UCC system – Unique global identification system
EFSIS –European Food Safety Inspection Service
FAO – Food and Agricultural Organization of United Nations
GLN– EAN.UCC system Global Location Number
GMP – Good Manufacturing Practice.
GTIN – EAN.UCC system Global Trade Item Number.
GTIN+ – GTIN plus a further number to uniquely identify each particular trade unit (e.g. the production batch
and serial number or the date and time of production).
HACCP – Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points.
ID – Identification.
MSC – Marine Stewardship Council
n2 or n14, etc – EAN.UCC identifier numbers consisting of 2 or 14, etc digits
SSCC – EAN.UCC system Serial Shipping Container Code
UCC – Uniform Code Council
5 Information Requirements for Farmed Fish
5.1 The Identification of the units traded
Fishery products shall be traded as uniquely identified and labelled units.
Businesses that create trade units shall identify and label each of them with a GTIN+.
Businesses that create logistic units, made up of numbers of separately identified trade units, shall identify
and label each logistic unit with a SSCC.
Businesses that bring in supplies of fishery products from outside of the domain of the Tracefish specifications
and trade them onwards, shall identify and label each unit traded onward with the business’s own EAN.UCC
identifiers as above.
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5.2 The recording of information
Businesses that physically trade in fishery products shall generate and hold the required information,
appropriate to the type of business, for each of the units traded.
The detailed information requirements are tabulated below as follows:
– for breeders in 5.3;
– for hatcheries in 5.4;
– for fish farms in 5.5;
– for live fish carriers in 5.6
– for processors in 5.7;
– for transporters and storers in 5.8;
– for traders and wholesalers in 5.9;
– for retailers and caterers in 5.10;
– for fish feed production in 5.11;
– and additional requirements for businesses that bring in fish and materials from outside of the Tracefish
domain, in 5.12.
Businesses that carry out the functions of more than one of the categories listed above shall record the
information relevant to each of the functions carried out.
The data elements tabulated in table 1 to table 10 categorised as shall are considered to be fundamental
information necessary to identify and physically trace the products. These elements must be recorded.
The data elements tabulated in table 1 to table 10 categorised as should are specific information required by
law in relation to food safety, quality and labelling together with important elements of commercially desirable
information related to those matters. It is recommended that these elements are recorded.
The data elements tabulated in table 1 to table 10 categorised as may are further specific information required
by law and commercially desirable information, considered to be of sufficient relevance to be included in the
document. Businesses may choose to record these elements.
NOTE In these tabulations there is no repetition of the information originally recorded to describe the units
created and their history, although businesses receiving those units later in the distribution chain will often
need some of that information. The information is keyed to the unit IDs and can be supplied by commercial
agreement between the businesses without having to re-input the data.
5.3 Breeders
For the purposes of this document, breeders are considered to be establishments that produce fish roe/eggs
from brood stocks, often based on selection for special characteristics. They may carry out basic operations
on the roe/eggs and brood stock such as temperature and light manipulation, and chemical treatments.
Prior to dispatch breeders may carry out their own operations including i.e. quality grading, and packing.
The trade units created by breeders can range from a few thousand to several millions of eggs passed into the
hands of the next food business.
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Table 1 —Detailed information requirements for breeders
Categorisation
Data element Description Examples
BREEDERS
Name and address or GLN (n3+n13) Salmogen Ltd.
FBR01 Food business ID of food business that operates 4321 Trondheim x
breeding establishment. Norway
Salmogen Breeding
Name, address and registration Station 1
Breeding
FBR02 number or GLN (n3+n13)of breeding 1234 Trondheim x
establishment ID
establishment Norway
NTFS0001 NO
Names of fish quality or food safety
Breeder GMP
FBR03 GMP schemes by which breeder is Debio x
certification
certified
FOR EACH TRADE UNIT CREATED
Identity
(01) 07012345000001
FBR04 Unit ID GTIN+ (n2+n14+AI’s) x
(10) 0000000125
Description
FBR05 Species Latin names or FAO 3alpha codes Salmo salar or SAS x
FAO area for captured marine fish, or
country of origin for captured fish from
Area/country of
FBR27 inland waters and for farmed fish, or Norway x
origin
more specific location (may be several
areas)
Sum of average temperature per day
FBR09 Day degrees o 490 x
in Celsius degrees ( C)
Percentage of eggs, from original
FBR17 Viability 98 % x
batch, that survives until dispatched
FBR10 Spawning date Date of fertilisation 2002-09-25 x
Genetic Description of batch. All females,
FBR11 Triploids x
characteristics mixed sex, triploids etc
FBR12 Genetic ID Stock name and year class MOWI 2000 x
Use of GMO in production or in
FBR13 GMO No x
feeding of broodstock Yes/No
FBR28 Number of eggs Number of eggs in created trade unit 1.000.000 x
Production history
FBR08 Farm unit ID Internal number of rearing unit (tank ) 15 x
Temperature/time log of the product Series of temperature
FBR14 Temperature record holding area for the period between (°C)/date and time x
reception and dispatc points
FBR15 Salinity record ‰ 0 ‰ x
FBR16 Water flow record Average use – litre/minute 10 l/min x
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Categorisation
Data element Description Examples
Records of names and period of
Fungus infection
diseases or indication if records are
FBR18 Disease record 2003-03-02– x
available in electronic form, on paper
2004-04-02
or not available
Weight of parental Weight of parental fish of our created
FBR19 16, 15, 18, 14, 16 (kg) x
fish trade unit. (kg)
Age of parental fish of our created 3,12 – 3,05 – 3,05 –
FBR20 Age of parental fish x
trade unit. (years and months) 3,05 (years)
Medicine, vaccine or chemical names
Pyceze,
and period of use or indication if
FBR26 Treatment record 2002-10-01– x
records are available in electronic
2002-10-01
form, on paper or not available.
FOR EACH LOGISTIC UNIT CREATED
Identities
SSCC (n2+n18)
SSCC: (00)
FBR21 Unit ID x
235467985462312345
The IDs of the trade units within the
FBR22 Trade unit IDs List of GTIN+ x
logistic unit.
FOR EACH UNIT DISPATCHED (either as a logistic unit or a separate trade unit)
Identity
SSCC (n2+n18) (if dispatched as a
SSCC: (00)
FBR23 Unit ID logistic unit) or GTIN+ (n2+n14+AI’s) x
235467985462312345
(if dispatched as a separate trade unit)
Destination
Name and address or GLN (n3+n13) Fjord Harvest South
Next Food Business of the food business to whom the unit Smolt
FBR24 x
ID is dispatched (transporter or hatchery, 3456 Bergen
etc.) Norway
Date and time of Date and time of transfer to next food
FBR25 2002-09-25T12:15 x
dispatch business
5.4 Hatcheries
For the purposes of this document, hatcheries are considered to be businesses that receive roe/eggs and
keep it during the hatching stage and start feeding stage, and dispatch fish to the fish farms.
The hatcheries may change the nature of fishery products, by carrying out operations such as feeding,
grading, treatments, etc.
Hatcheries create new trade units that can range from a few thousands to several hundred thousand fishes
passed into the hands of the next food business.
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Table 2 —Detailed information requirements for hatcheries
Categorisation
Data element Description Examples
HATCHERY
Name and address or GLN (n3+n13) of Fjord Harvest Ltd.
FHA01 Food business ID food business that operates hatchery 1234 Trondheim x
establishment Norway
Fjord Harvest South
Name, address and registration number
Hatchery Smolt, 3456 Bergen
FHA02 or GLN (n3+n13) of hatchery x
establishment ID Norway
establishment
NTFS0002 NO
Hatchery GMP Names of fish quality or food safety GMP
FHA03 Debio x
certification schemes by which hatchery is certified
FOR EACH UNIT RECEIVED
Identities
SSCC (n2+n18) (if received as a logistic
SSCC: (00)
FHA04 Unit ID unit) or GTIN+ (n2+n14+AI’s) (if received x
235467985462312345
as a separate trade unit)
If received as a logistic unit, the IDs of
FHA05 Trade unit IDs List of GTIN+ x
the trade units within the logistic unit.
Source
Salmogen Breeding
Name and address or GLN (n3+n13) of
Previous Food station 1
FHA06 previous food business that operates x
Business ID 1234 Trondheim
breeding company or transporter
Norway
Date and time of
FHA07 2002-09-25T06:20 x
reception
Control checks (either on logistic or separate trade units)
Temperature
FHA08 Temperature °C i.e. in received unit 4,0 °C x
check
If recording device is affixed to batch, Series of temperature
Temperature
FHA09 temperature/time record product holding (°C)/date and time x
record
area points
Type of checks + measured results, or
Quality control
FHA10 indication if records are available in Paper x
checks
electronic form, on paper or not availabe
Transformation Information
List of ID’s of our created trade units that GTIN+
Related created
FHA11 may incorporate part of this received GTIN+ x
trade unit IDs
trade unit. GTIN+
GTIN+, 33 %,150 kg
Fraction (%’s, kilos) of the received trade
FHA12 Fractions GTIN+, 33%, 150 kg x
unit that go into each created unit
GTIN+, 33%, 150 kg
FOR EACH NEW TRADE UNIT CREATED
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Categorisation
Data element Description Examples
Identity
SSCC (n2+n18) (if dispatched as a GTIN+:
FHA13 Unit ID logistic unit) or GTIN+ (n2+n14+AI’s) (if (01) 07012345000001 x
dispatched as a separate trade unit) (10) 0000000125
Description
FHA15 Average weight Average weight of created unit 75 g x
FHA34 Net weight Net weight of created unit (kg) 20.000 kg x
Sum of average temperature per day in
FHA17 Day degrees 2984 x
Celsius degrees (°C)
FHA18 Hatching date Date of hatching 2005-11-01 x
Figures for Plasma Cl or ATPase. Mean
Smoltification
FHA19 and standard deviation, previous to 144, ± 6 x
status
dispatch (salmon)
Records of malformation types and % of
total in original batch, or indication if
FHA20 Malformation Not available x
records are available in electronic form,
on paper or not available.
Production history
FHA14 Farm unit ID Internal number of rearing unit (tank ) 15 x
Records of names and period of
diseases, or indication if records are
FHA21 Disease record Paper x
available in electronic form, on paper or
not available
Number of days with no feeding prior to
FHA22 Starving period 3 days x
transport
Temperature/time log of the product Series of temperature
Temperature
FHA23 holding area for the period between (°C) / date and time x
record
reception and dispatch. points
Records of oxygen saturation in fish
rearing tank, or indication if records are
FHA24 Oxygen record List of O data x
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