D-traceability Dictionary
Traceability
The ability to prove where a product or animal came from and every stage it passed through
- Plain meaning
- The ability to prove where a product or animal came from and every stage it passed through
- How to use it
- Keep records that identify every animal or batch and its movements; premium buyers will not pay without them.
- South African benchmark
- South African beef lacks the traceability-driven EU access its smaller neighbours secured (Article 60).
- Country notes
- Botswana's livestock identification and traceability system underpins its EU beef access.
- Calculate it
- No calculator; the term is applied in the venture plan narrative.
- See also
- Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), GlobalG.A.P.
Introduced in C6 Standards and Market Access.