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Case studies of fresh fish chains in Denmark and Australia |
M. FREDERIKSEN, Dept. of Seafood Research, Danish Institute for Fisheries Research, Bldg. 221, DTU, Lyngby, DK-2800, Denmark Chain traceability in Europe has become a focus subject because of food scandals and a number of BSE cases in the beef sector. The background is mainly to rapidly be able to recall the products from the market. Traceability however can be used for much more than that. Traceability is one of the keys to enhance mutual trust in a chain of independent actors, make supply chain management possible and be able to reduce costs. Another possible use of information provided by a traceability system is to use information for consumers as added value to the product. Chain studies of three chains in each country will be presented. The analyses of these chains had the main purpose of comparing traceability in Australia and Denmark. The Australian chains were chosen for comparison because they had products with very high value to the very demanding Japanese market. If anything could be done to assure traceability it was assumed it was done here. In comparison, the Danish chains had relatively low value products. The labour intensive traceability systems observed in Australian will be presented. Later an IT based traceability system for captured fresh fish on the Danish domestic market was developed, and this will be described. The system has been tested and documented in a complete Danish chain from fisherman to retailer. The results will be discussed and one of the tests will be demonstrated in a short video presentation. The average total extra time added by traceability in each step of the chain is about 16s/box. Further, the problems connected with trust in product quality from the traceable information will be discussed. Finally, the present difficulties for further development within the area and future perspectives will be presented.
Session 9, Traceability for aquatic food products
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