As a result of the Quality Management System implemented in 2003, LivingJumbo Industry is monitoring and recording the production during the entire technological flow, from polypropylene granules to the polypropylene big bags.
The EU General Food Law Regulation defines TRACEABILITY as " the ability to trace and follow a food, feed, food—producing animal or substance...through all stages of production, processing and distribution".
Traceability is important especially for the food chain, as some of our customers are packing food products in our big bags, but not only for this matter. It also can be used by all our customers.
Characteristics of the traceability systems:
- Identification of units / batches of all ingredients and products;
- Information on when and where they are moved or transformed;
- The existence of a system linking these data.
In practice, traceability systems are record keeping procedures that show the path of a particular unit or batch of product or ingredient from supplier (s), through all the intermediate steps which process and combine ingredients into new products and through the supply chain to customers and, perhaps ultimately, to consumers.
Traceability systems are critically reliant on the information’s recording process. How much information is carried in a traceability system varies and is dependent on the nature of the product and manufacturing practice, customer specifications and law requirements.
Robust mechanisms are implemented to facilitate the collection and authentication of all information, to enable it to be updated and shared through the chain. In some cases, analytical tests may be able to support and check traceability systems.
Our customers gain mostly hidden benefits from traceability i.e. more effective achievement of product safety and an increased effectiveness of recall in emergencies.
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