Food and beverage
From primary production to the shelf: traceability, suppliers and customer audits, subsector by subsector.
Farming and primary production
- Farms and livestock holdingsGoing furtherField records, treatments and seasons: lots of temporary staff and one inspection a year.
- The field record and what gets asked laterGoing furtherIt is kept out of obligation and ends up serving another purpose: it is the only thing that answers when a client asks about a consignment.
Livestock
- Livestock: movements and treatmentsGoing furtherWhat you must be able to show for every animal that comes in, goes out or is treated.
- Vet prescriptions and withdrawal periodsGoing furtherThe treatment is nearly always recorded properly. What fails is the countdown that starts that day and that nobody revisits.
Fisheries and aquaculture
- Aquaculture and fish processingGoing furtherBatches that merge at processing, and traceability you must be able to rebuild from the tray.
- The one who harvests and makes the first saleGoing furtherThe work happens where there is no office and no signal. What is not recorded there never appears anywhere later on its own.
Meat industry
Fish and seafood
Fruit and vegetables
Dairy
Bakery and pastry
Cereals and flours
Oils and fats
Canned and preserved foods
Ready meals
Frozen foods
Beverages
Animal feed
Ingredients and additives
Food distribution
- Food manufacturing and packagingGoing furtherRaw materials, packaging and customer audits in one case file.
- Food distribution and hospitalityGoing furtherMany small suppliers, high staff turnover, and an inspection that can arrive any day.
- Food supplier traceabilityGoing furtherBeing able to say within an hour where each batch came from and under which certificates.
- Withdrawing a product from the marketAdvancedA recall is not improvised at nine on a Friday night. It is rehearsed beforehand — and what you rehearse is finding the paperwork.
- Supplier certificates in the food sectorCollect data sheets, allergen info and certifications from every supplier, with expiry alerts.
Wholesalers
- Wholesalers: the link that only moves goodsGoing furtherYou make nothing and are still asked for documentation on everything, in both directions.
- Buying from a hundred small producersAdvancedYour suppliers have no quality department and no appetite for paperwork. And still, what you sell rests on what they record.
Supermarkets and hypermarkets
- Selling direct what you produceStart hereWith no middlemen nobody asks you for paperwork — until someone asks who will not accept «I make it myself».
- Supermarkets: approving hundreds of suppliersGoing furtherThe requesting side, when what you ask for is asked a thousand times a year.
- Selling under your brand what someone else makesAdvancedPutting your name on the pack puts you in front. To whoever asks, the maker stands behind you, not in your place.
Food service and catering
Food logistics and cold chain
Food packaging
- Packaging that touches the foodGoing furtherPackaging is not just another consumable: it carries its own paperwork, and it is approved for one use, not for any.
- Who prints the pack and what it saysGoing furtherThe printer answers for the material and for printing what they were sent. That what was sent is true is the sender's problem.
Regulation: fisheries and CATCH
- What CATCH in TRACES is and who it applies to since 2026Start hereSince 10 January 2026 the catch certificate is processed in CATCH. What changed and for whom.
- How to register as an operator in TRACESStart hereWithout the right role, the buttons you need do not appear. And the role is approved by somebody other than you.
- What data you need before opening TRACESGoing furtherThe form takes twenty minutes. Gathering what it asks for, if you did not ask in advance, takes days.
- How to create a catch certificate in TRACES, box by boxGoing furtherThe full sequence: from «Documents → CATCH» to «Submit to Vessel Masters», with what goes in each box.
- How to import in TRACES with a paper catch certificateGoing furtherThe «Created by importer» flow: when it applies, what it generates and why it is not the same as originating one.
- How to create a Processing Statement in TRACES (Annex IV)Going furtherIf the product is processed, the catch certificate is only half of it. This document is the other half.
- How to create a simplified catch certificate in TRACESGoing furtherThe one for small vessels. Fewer boxes, but a longer signature path: exporter, authority, exporter again.
- How to declare transhipments in a catch certificate in TRACESGoing furtherAt sea it goes in Box 6, in port in Box 7. Nobody will mention it: for the supplier it is routine.
- How to read document statuses in TRACESGoing furtherEach status says who the document depends on now. Reading them is knowing who to call.
- How to collect from third parties what TRACES will ask forGoing furtherThe form takes a morning. The expensive part is the vessel owner, the warehouse and the lab answering in time.
- How to create a non-manipulation document in TRACESAdvancedIt evidences that goods were stored untouched. It is measured by weights: what went in and what came out.