Fifth SEAFOODplus Conference

Copenhagen 08-06-08 to 10-06-08

 

Session 6 Seafood traceability

Moderators:

Erling Larsen, DK, coordinator of SEAFOODplus RTD area 6

and

Allan Bremner, AUS, member of SEAFOODplus External Advisory Board

 

In this session the latest development in the projects in the horizontal RTD activity on traceability were reported. The three projects are METHODS, IMPLEM  and VALID, indicating the contents as concerning methodology, implementation and validation respectively. Within the first of these projects a new manual for Good Traceability Practice, to be used by the industry, was presented. In the second project, IMPLEM, extensive tests have been performed for implementing the use of RFID tags for carrying relevant traceability information. In the last of the three projects, VALID, a database on DNA sequences has been established for 53 fish species.

  

Presentations

The basis for data sharing in traceability - Good Traceability Practice

 

Erling Larsen, DTU Aqua, Denmark

 

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The gateway for future data collection in traceability - RIFD tags and temperature measuring solutions

 

Eigil Foraas (presentation prepared by Jostein Storøy), SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture, Norway

 

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Validation tools for traceability - Ensuring quality and safety and preventing fraud in the seafood chain

 

Begoña Pérez-Villarreal, AZTI-Tecnalia, Spain

 

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