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And so it begins! The TraceFood Wiki is finally live and open for anyone to comment and edit! Built on the TraceFood Framework we still remain true to our main objective: to make traceability through a whole supply chain possible, preferably in electronic form. The goal is to ensure that; food items and processes are identified in a uniform way, that a common electronic language is available for interchange of traceability information, and that a common Good Traceability Practice underlie all implementations.

In order to achieve this, we have created the TraceFood Wiki. We provide this wiki both as a help for people wanting to implement traceability in their business, but also as an arena where people can come together and discuss their different views and experiences on traceability. Our work so far has laid the foundation, but in order to move forward we need input from all communities working within traceability. With your help, TraceFood will grow to the international standard we hope it will one day become, and contain the world's leading best practices on food traceability!

The initial work on the framework was done in the EU projects TraceFish and SeafoodPlus funded by the European Commission under the fifth and sixth framework programmes. Currently the TraceFood Framework and the TraceFood Wiki is being funded and developed through the EU funded project TRACE. Several other international projects and initiatives also support the framework. Guidelines and standards have been, and are being developed for numerous food sectors, including seafood, mineral water, honey, chicken, cereal and meat.

So you have just arrived at TraceFood and want to have a look around? Here are some navigation tips for new and old users!

Are you new to traceability, and want to know more about it? Perhaps you want to know what traceability can do for your business?

• Traceability is the section to go for all your overview needs.

Have you decided to go into traceability and are unsure if you want to use TraceFood?

• Fundamentals will provide you with our underlying principles and basic definitions.

So you have decided to implement traceability, and use TraceFood? Great! But you are unsure of how it should be done?

• Good Traceability Practice will provide you with experience from many combined case studies and examples of best practice from the industry.

So you are in the process of implementing traceability and you want to learn how to share this information with your business partners?

• Tools contains information about concrete methods and electronic languages for exchange of information.

Get answers to some of your questions at the TraceFood FAQ!