FOOD SCIENCE ›› 2004, Vol. 25 ›› Issue (6): 188-194.

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Application Review of the Global Identification System (EAN•UCC System) in the Traceability of the Food Safety Supply Chain

 KONG  Hong-Liang, LI  Jian-Hui   

  1. Article Numbering Center of China
  • Online:2004-06-15 Published:2011-10-24

Abstract: The article introduced the General EAN•UCC Specification, and took beef and fish as examples to explain howto use EAN•UCC system to track and trace the food supply chain. In the traceability system, the identification of theproduct, the attributes and the related parties as well as the locations were the base, and the information system(includinginformation acquiring, information transmitting and information managing) was the key to carry out the successful traceabilityresearch.

Key words: EAN•UCC system, food safety, tracking, tracing