TRACEABILITY OF ANIMAL AND FOOD

SAFETY

Rathod Rahul Baliram

Enroll no : V/10/134
CONTENTS
 Introduction
 Need and goal of traceability

 Benefits of traceability

 Traceability is not new

 Animal identification

 Components

 Traceability in meat sector

 Conclusion

 References
INTRODUCTION
 Food safety -a growing concern.

 Outbreaks of disease in animals that could be

transmitted to humans such as the avian flu

 The presence of chemicals above acceptable

limits in food-threatens life
WHAT IS TRACEABILITY?
NEED AND GOAL OF TRACEABILITY
BENEFITS OF LIVESTOCK TRACEABILITY
1. Ownership determination

2. Effective implementation of disease control

program

3. Implementation of developmental schemes

4. Performance recording

5. Livestock census

6. Marketing of livestock product

7. Food quality assurance

Traceability is not new..!

 1700 BC Mesopotamian shepherds mark animals

with different colours.

 1750-90 UK pass variety of food safety laws

 1875 Marking of U.S. livestock with tags.

ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION
 The core requirement - identification using a
suitable methods

 Maintenance of animal data

METHODS USED FOR ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION
 Branding

 Tattooing
 Visual tagging

 Bar coded tags

RFID
COMPONENTS OF LIVESTOCK TRACEABILITY
 INFORMATION REQUIREMENT
 Food receipt: - information about food and its origin

 It must provide the information like

Firm identification

Production records – Product code

– Code to ID plant where
packaged
– Production line
– Date code
– Time (Hour, Minutes, Seconds)

 Volume or quantity of products manufactured or supplied

 Batch or lot identification where products are distributed

TRACEABILITY: MEAT
 Compulsory Indications on the labels

1.The name of the country in which the animal or group

of animals were born
2.The name of the State/country in which the animal or
group of animals were raised
3.‘Slaughtered in: [name of state/country]’
4.Licence number of slaughterhouse
5.Licence number of cutting plants
6.A reference number or code
STANDARD ORGANIZATIONS
 Codex Alimentarious Commission

 International Organisation for Standardization

ISO: 22005

 World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)

 GS 1 (Formerly EAN.UCC)
SCENARIO OF LIVESTOCK TRACEABILITY
 International scenario :
- Developed country across the world have already
implemented livestock traceability system

- The British meat sector suffered most crisis by

2000 -BSE

- In the European Union, a “One step Up, One step

Down” traceability program is followed
 TRACEABILITY:
UPSTREAM AND DOWNSTREAM
Raw material Raw material Raw material
Supplier 1 Supplier 2 Supplier 3 Upstream:
Tracing

Producer
Raw material
Supplier 3

Wholesaler Wholesaler Wholesaler

Retail
Retail
Retail Retail Retail
Rrrreetail Downstream:
Tracking

Consumer
 Indian scenario :
- In India, AHD Maharashtra established
Maharashtra Animal Identification and Recording
Authority (MAIRA)

-ICAR – NRC On Meat, Hyderabad has

established traceability database and its main
focus was on buffalo meat industry

-NDDB has established traceability system for

farmers of cooperative union in Gujarat
POLICY DEVELOPMENT FOR THE
IMPLEMENTATION OF TRACEABILITY IN INDIA

 Indigenous cattle identification by ear tagging : -

- The DAHD&F, Government of India is implementing
massive tagging program to all the indigenous variety
of cattle with the aim to improve progeny and milk
production

- Tagged cows also have health card known as ‘Nakul

Swasthya Patra’
DISEASE CONTROL PROGRAM (FMD)
- Government (DAHD&F) initiated (FMD CP) in the
year of 2004 in 54 district of the country

- FMDCP is extended to 221 districts and later it is

envisaged to cover all the remaining states

- The FMDCP is possible only through livestock

traceability system .
ADHAR ACT 2016

 Identification details — age, breed, sex, lactation,

height, body colour, horn type, tail switch and
special marks are being recorded
 A state-level data bank -to be linked with the
national online database
 The move is aimed at resisting cow smuggling
DIGITAL INDIA PROGRAM
 Digital India movement -ever increasing mobile
connectivity -interconnect stakeholders would
create a network for the implementation of the
livestock traceability
CONCLUSION
 Effective implementation of traceability is
essential for food safety
 In view of complex network of farmers, trade
makers, veterinary authorities, abattoir
managers, retailors and consumers, integration
and interaction are the basic requirements .
 Different government initiatives like
identification of indigenous cattle, online
certification by APEDA, creation of disease free
zones have created conductive environment for
making livestock traceability a reality in India.