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A Study on Establishing Traceability System in Livestock Production and Marketing Channel
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AuthorHuh, Duk
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Publication Date2005.05.01
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The objective of this study is to establish plans on adopting the traceability system in domestic livestock production and marketing channels. This study will examine the pilot project of beef traceability system and investigate the problem and factor in domestic livestock production and marketing channels, and also to examine the international standard in traceability system of goods production and distribution and foreign traceability system, using the method such as previous literature review, evaluation of pilot project on beef traceability system and econometrical approach.
In this study, the traceability system of livestock products is defined as an ability to follow and trace the information about livestock product in the stage of production, processing, manufacturing, distribution, and marketing.
The trend of establishing the traceability system was regularized in late 1990. EU introduced the new trend of the traceability system in early 1990 and U.S. and Canada recently accept this system and apply it to their policy.
Results from the survey of pilot project of beef traceability system presents that consumer require the livestock product safety and assurance for their health, and the survey also show that there are problems of traceability system such as individual identification system, the choice of brands who participated in pilot project and strategy of public information about consumer.
To guarantee clearness of livestock production and marketing channels and to ensure safety foods, it is essential to establish traceability system in livestock production and marketing channels.
First of all, constructing the traceability system requires improvement of individual identification system. Second, in case of expanding beef traceability system, it demands gradual expansion of pilot project that is performed by the brand selling the livestock product. Third, leading farmer raising livestock and trader distributing livestock product to participate is required to educate the necessity and main idea of the traceability system. Forth, establishing the traceability system is necessary to combine individual identification system which is following international standard and to construct the data base system that records the information about goods. Fifth, preventing illegal distribution and to improve national awareness about the confidence of livestock product requires to establish monitoring system and to enforce penalty about monitoring results. Finally, establishing the traceability system requires to establish a previous sample test system that traces the origin of disease.
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