Food Recall and Traceability Usa Bamrungbhuet National Bureau of Agricultural Commodity and Food Standards Inception workshop “Principles and further activities for Codex implementation of International Food Safety Standards in ASEAN Countries” 17 – 19 September 2012, Royal Princess Hotel, Bangkok
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Food Recall and Traceability
Usa Bamrungbhuet
National Bureau of Agricultural Commodity and Food Standards
Inception workshop
“Principles and further activities for Codex implementation of International Food Safety Standards in ASEAN Countries”
17 – 19 September 2012, Royal Princess Hotel, Bangkok
Food Recall and Traceability
• Consumer concerns about food safety have increased.
• This is a result of various events relating to food safety.
• An outbreak of food poisoning caused by the E. coli 0157:H7 in 1996
• Outbreaks of disease in animals that could be transmitted
to human
• The presence of chemicals above acceptable limits in food
and feed , can threaten both the quality and safety of the
product.
• A number of crisis concerning food safety and quality and their effect on consumer health have dented confidence in foodstuff.
• In some cases food trade has also been severely disrupted and the export of food products has been prohibited.
• These problems have had wide-ranging impacts throughout the food chain, and have brought about substantial reform in food production, regulation.
Food Recall and Traceability
• Food Recall “ The action to remove food from the market at any stage of the food chain, including that possessed by consumers”
• Traceability/product tracing (T/PT)
“ The ability to follow the movement of a food through specified stage (s) of production processing and distribution”
Food Recall and Traceability
Codex Standards Related to Food Recall
• General Principle of Food Hygiene (CAC/RCP 1- 1969)
• 5.8 Recall Procedures :
• Managers should ensure effective procedures are in place
to deal with any food safety hazards and to enable to
complete, rapid recall of any lot of the finished food from
the market. Where a product has been withdrawn because
of an immediate health hazards, other products which are
produced under similar conditions, and which may present
a similar hazard to public health, should evaluated for
safety and may need to be withdrawn. The need for public
warnings should be considered.
• CAC/RCP 1- 1969(continued)
• Recalled products should be held under
supervision until they are destroyed, used for
purposes other than human consumption,
determined to be safe for human consumption, or
reprocessed in a manner to ensure their safety.
Codex Standards Related to Food Recall
• Other Code of Hygienic Practices
Code of Hygienic Practice for Eggs and Egg Products (CAC/RCP15 – 1976)
Refer to the General Principles of Food Hygiene
Code of Hygienic Practice for the Transport of Food in Bulk and Semi – Packed Food
Refer to the General Principles of Food Hygiene and, as appropriate, other Codex Codes of Hygienic Practice shall be applied.
Codex Standards Related to Food Recall
Proposed Draft Principles and Guidelines
for National Food Control System
In order to respond to food safety emergencies, consideration should be given to the establishment of a national food safety emergency plan with establishment of a coordination arrangement with links to public health authorities, law enforcement and intelligence agencies, food recall systems, risk assessment specialists, the food industry, and others.
The national food control system should have procedures covering the prompt removal of unsafe food. These procedures should ensure that products that are deemed to be unsafe should be recalled, appropriately dealt with to ensure consumer protection. Where distribution has occurred, appropriate consumer notification should be given.
Codex Standards Related to Food Recall
Proposed Draft Principles and Guidelines
for National Food Control System
Recall systems and other market withdrawal systems should be a coordinated effort between the national government and food business operators. If the competent authority requests a recall, operators should have an affirmative duty to recover recalled products and to destroy or dispose of them properly. National laws should include penalties for companies that fail to comply with recall requests.
In order to promote consumer confidence in food safety and ensure fair practices in the food.
Codex Standards Related to Food Recall
Codex Standards related to T/PT
General Principle of Food Hygiene (CAC/RCP 1- 1969)
9.1 Lot Identification
Lot Identification is essential in Product recall and also helps effective
stock rotation. Each container of food should be permanently marked
to identify the producer and the lot. Codex General Standard for the
Labeling of Prepackaged Foods
9.2 Product Information
All food products should be accompanied by or bear adequate
information to enable the next person in the food chain to handle,
display, store and prepare and use the product safely and correctly.
• An Issue in CCFFP, TFAF,
TFFBT, CCFH, CCFL,
CCFICS, CCGP,
Regional Codex Coordinating Committee
Codex Standards related to T/PT
CCGP
Codex Definition
CCFICS
Codex Principle
Codex Standards related to T/PT
• Discussion in CCGP
The place of traceability in risk management
The use of traceability for product integrity,
authenticity and identification
The use of equivalent measures
Practicability of its application in developing
countries
Consumer confidence and information
concerning the nature and origin of products
Codex Standards related to T/PT
• High costs reason for applying
• Extent in consumer health
protection
• Ensuring fair trade practices
Codex Standards related to T/PT
The extent in consumer health protection
• To consider as part of food safety risk management
• To achieve ALOP from that risk
• Other appropriate measures achieve the same ALOP
and less costly
• To apply to some part or throughout the food chain
• As a case-by-case basis depending on the nature of the
risk and ability to manage
Codex Standards related to T/PT
Ensuring fair trade practices
• Country of origin
• Organic farming
• Religious concerns such as kosher or halal
• Animal welfare
• Environment
Codex Standards related to T/PT
Question of how to achieve ALOP or legitamate
objective
• What are the modalities?
• What information needs to be transmitted?
• When and how to integrate into international
regulatory?
• Practicability in developing countries?
Codex Standards related to T/PT
Question of how to achieve ALOP or legitimate
objective
• Need justifications for food safety and their economical
practicability in developing countries.
• Take into account other measures for food safety risk
management process achieve same ALOP and may less
costly or more appropriate in a given situation.
• To consider the tracing of the products as an additional
tool only for the cases when a risk to human health has
been identified
Codex Standards related to T/PT
• The 27th CAC (2004) has adopted T/PT
Definition
Traceability/product tracing (T/PT)
“ The ability to follow the movement of a
food through specified stage(s) of production processing and distribution”
Codex Standards related to T/PT
• CCFICS
Set of Principles of T/PT
concerns that members have raised with respect to T/PT
the scope of the principles with respect to both food
safety and fair practices in the food trade;
mandatory versus voluntary application of
traceability/product tracing; and
the rationale for when and how to apply
traceability/product tracing.
Codex Standards related to T/PT
• The 29th CAC (2006) adopted “ Principles
for Traceability/Product tracing as a tool
within a Food Inspection and Certification
System (CAC/GL 60-2006)
Codex Standards related to T/PT
PRINCIPLES FOR TRACEABILITY / PRODUCT TRACING
• A set of principles to assist competent authorities in utilizing traceability/product tracing as a tool within their food inspection and certification system.
• May be applied, in order to contribute to the protection of consumers against food-borne hazards and deceptive marketing practices and the facilitation of trade on the basis of accurate product
• Is one of a number of tools that may be utilized by a competent authority within its food inspection and certification system
• may apply to all or specified stages of the food chain (from
production to distribution), as appropriate to the
objectives of the food inspection and certification system.
• should be able to identify at any specified stage of the food
chain (from production to distribution) from where the
food came (one step back) and to where the food went (one
step forward), as appropriate to the objectives of the food
inspection and certification system.
PRINCIPLES FOR TRACEABILITY / PRODUCT TRACING
• does not of itself improve food safety outcomes or promote fair practices in food trade, i.e. it must be
applied in combination with a measure or requirement
• ensuring the implications of implementation are fully considered (i.e. especially for developing countries
• the exporting countries should not have to replicate the traceability/product tracing tool of the importing country, it
need only meet the objectives of the importing country’s food inspection and certification system
PRINCIPLES FOR TRACEABILITY / PRODUCT TRACING
The Need for further Guidance on
Traceability/ Product Tracing
• A questionnaire where developed to gather
information on member countries experiences of
developing Traceability/Product Tracing
requirements,
• Some of the comments received indicate that
there is a strong present need for further
guidance, while other comments point out that
development of guidelines, including identifying
potential gaps at this point is premature.
The Need for further Guidance on
Traceability/ Product Tracing
Comments have been given which point out some elements of importance that need to be considered if guidance should be developed, for example;
• Guidance should be developed based on practical experiences;
• must accommodate the various approaches used by countries;
• must accommodate the wide spectrum of systems (electronic and non-electronic) used for T/PT; and
• Must provide flexibility for future developments in the field.
• should be feasible even for medium-sized or small companies, rather than only major companies.
Implementation of food recall
and Traceability across the food chain
• Purpose of a Food Recall
there is rapid removal of unsafe food from all
possible stages of the supply chain;
the concerned consumers and customers are
informed; and
the food under recall has been retrieved, destroyed
or reprocessed
• Traceability is an effective tool with which food
business operators can trace food throughout
the food chain.
• The most common legal requirement is for food
business operators to have, as a minimum, a
documented one-step-back/one-step-forward
traceability approach.
Implementation of food recall
and Traceability across the food chain
• In the context of a food recall, the objectives
of traceability are to:
identify uniquely a lot/batch/consignment of
food in a way that allows tracing of the physical
flow of the food forwards through the food
chain to the immediate customer and tracing of
the physical flow of raw materials backwards to
the immediate supplier;
Implementation of food recall
and Traceability across the food chain
• In the context of a food recall, the objectives
of traceability are to:
create and maintain accurate traceability
records that can be provided within a short time
period when needed for recall or at the request
of the competent authorities.
Implementation of food recall
and Traceability across the food chain
The first priority is to identify where the food has
been distributed (trace-forward activities).
This ensure rapid cessations of the use, distribution
and sale of the food to be recalled.
Following the initiation of trace-forwards activities,
trace-back activities should occur in conjunction with
the recall, to identify any other implicated food
Implementation of food recall
and Traceability across the food chain
Trace-forwards activities
The purpose of trace-forward activity is to identify the
physical location of the affected product in the food
chain.
The objective of the trace-forward process is to obtain
the most complete list of possible of all customers or
entities that received the affected, and to inform them
about the recall and the actions that are expected of them
in order to remove the product from the market.
Implementation of food recall
and Traceability across the food chain
Trace-back activities
The purpose of trace-back activity is to determine whether there are other products on the market or in the food supply chain that may have been affected by the same hazards as the food subjected to the recall.
The competent authority should work together with the food business operator to ensure that a trace back investigation is performed to ascertain that there is no other affected food on the market.
Implementation of food recall
and Traceability across the food chain
Conclusion
• T/PT has been proven useful, once there is an ability to trace a product that can be traced for whatever purpose.
• T/PT has the benefit however of being applicable to the management of previously unforeseen or unidentified risks which makes it an important tool.
• A number of countries have chosen to incorporate the T/PT tool in the food legislative framework for use by the competent authorities.
• Codex has developed a definition and a set of principles for national authorities.
Further consideration
Whether guidance on T/PT should be
developed or not ??
• FAO/WHO Guide for Developing and Improving National
Food Recall Systems
• Report of the Eighteenth Session of the Codex
Committee on General Principles
• Report of the Twentieth Session of the Codex
Committee on General Principles
• Report of the thirteenth Session of the Codex Committee