CEN/WS 008 - Traceability of fish products

This document specifies the information to be recorded in distribution chains in order to establish the
traceability of 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 captured finfish and their products, from
fishing vessels through to retailers or caterers.

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.