New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research abstracts
A practical web-based tracking and traceability information system
for the pork products supply chain
Xiong Ben Hai*
Luo Qing-Yao
Yang Liang
Institute of Animal Sciences
Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition
PO Box Beijing 1 4
No. 2 Yuanmingyuan West Road
Beijing, China
Fu Run-Ting
Lin Zhao-Hui
Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Bureau
Tianjin 300210, China
Pan Jia-Rong
Institute of Manufacture of Agricultural Food
Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
*Author for correspondence. bhxiong@iascaas.net.cn
Abstract Pork is the major dietary animal protein source of
Chinese. The concerns on pork quality and safety have urged the China
Administration to establish a tracking and traceability system for
animal product safety through legislation. Based on analysis of the
factors that affect pork products quality, including inputs (vaccines,
fodder, additives and veterinary drugs) and key control points during
swine feeding, slaughtering and retail process, this study has
developed a practical application platform consisting of a bar-code
based data identification system, a data-record keeping system,
correlated databases, and a data query interface. This application
platform can meet the government’s regulation and consumer demands by
enabling the pork quality data to be collected and uploaded from
different processes, and through inquiries interface terminals and a
final splitting product tracing code, the safety information of the
final farm and corresponding individual pig can be retrieved. The
designed systems have already been deployed in Tianjin’s two farms,
with their associated abattoirs and retail supermarkets, indicating the
methodology and its technical solution are applicable, and can be used
to monitor the pork products supply chain from the farm to the dinner
table.
Keywords bar code; food safety;
information system; pork;
traceability
A07084; Online publication date 21 December 2007; Received and
accepted 10 August 2007
New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, 2007, Vol. 50:
725–733
0028–8233/07/5005–0725 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2007
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