GTP:Mineral Water Sector

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Contents 1 Introduction 2 Defining traceable units 3 Good Practice 4 Sector spesific information

Introduction

This page is meant to be a practical guideline for food businesses in the mineral water industry preparing themselves for implementation of traceability oriented practice in their own company. Recommendations given are based on principles and requirements set in the TraceFood standards.

Defining traceable units

First step in implementing traceability is to define your traceable units. A traceable unit often refers to the smallest traceable unit that is exchanged between two parties in the supply chain and may be a bottle, a six pack of bottles, a carton of six packs or a pallet with six packs or cartons.

Traceable units should be defined for inbound materials and finished products.

Good Practice

• The traceable unit should be identified and labelled with a globally unique identifier.
• Record or allocate unique identification and recording on inbound bottles, pre-forms, corks and caps.
• Allocate unique identification of outbound bottles, pre-forms, corks and caps
• Link all information about ingredients and raw materials directly to production batch
• Provide information about the mineral water to customer keyed to best-before-date on bottle

Sector spesific information

For detailed information on what information to be recorded in the links and transmitted between the links we refer to the Mineral Water ad-hoc standard.