Quality management and traceability systems must be in place in the entire food chain.

It was observed that the use of the Internet would ensure the traceability of the proceedings, which telephone systems might not.

According to the proposal, marijuana will be legally available under government control through a user registry and subject to quality control and traceability.

Essentially the international community will have to choose between the constructive approach of creating enhanced traceability systems, and some very difficult embargo systems.

EurepGAP has replaced or assimilated various regional, product group and retailer specific standards and has integrated regulatory requirements on HACCP, MRLs and traceability.

In the EU, for example, the General Principles and Requirements of Food Law (EC R 178 02) include provisions on the traceability of all food products as of 1 January 2005.

Product traceability to ensure information on the source of the product is also becoming an important issue that producers have to comply with in order to be able to enter regional or international markets.

Plenary noted that the Declaration should guide efforts to improve the traceability of alluvial production, as well as help potential donors channel capacity building assistance to further the effective implementation of the Certification Scheme.

For the purposes of the record of the procurement proceedings required under article 11 of the Model Law, the traceability of the communications concerned should also be verified (see, further, the text following paragraph 18 above).

Further, to enable precision manufacture and to comply with stringent quality requirements, developing countries and economies in transition require well developed metrology infrastructure, having calibration facilities that can establish measurement and traceability chains to the international SI units.