Authority-to-event workflow crosswalk

The authority records

FDA Food Traceability Rule

Covered domestic and foreign persons that manufacture, process, pack, or hold foods on the Food Traceability List for U.S. consumption, subject to the rule's definitions and exemptions · Final rule in force; FDA proposed a compliance-date extension and Congress directed non-enforcement before July 20, 2028. The rule establishes additional records for defined critical tracking events involving Food Traceability List foods, including key data elements, traceability lot codes, traceability plans, record availability, and electronic sortable spreadsheet requirements.

Codified U.S. food traceability requirements

Covered persons and Food Traceability List foods under the definitions, requirements, exemptions, modified requirements, and waivers in Subpart S · Current codified regulation. Subpart S contains the controlling definitions, Food Traceability List record requirements, CTE and KDE provisions, traceability-plan duties, record availability, exemptions, modified requirements, waivers, and enforcement provisions.

FDA Preventive Controls for Human Food

Covered facilities that manufacture, process, pack, or hold human food for U.S. consumption, subject to scope and exemptions · In force. The preventive-controls framework addresses food-safety plans, hazard analysis, preventive controls, monitoring, corrective actions, verification, supply-chain programs, recall plans, and associated records for covered facilities.

FDA Sanitary Transportation Rule

Covered shippers, loaders, carriers by motor or rail vehicle, and receivers engaged in U.S. food transportation, subject to exemptions and waivers · In force. The rule establishes sanitary transportation practices involving vehicles and equipment, operations, training, and records for covered food movements.

FDA Foreign Supplier Verification Programs Rule

Covered U.S. importers of human and animal food, subject to definitions, modified requirements, and exemptions · In force. FSVP requires covered importers to perform risk-based foreign supplier verification activities and maintain records for food and supplier approval and oversight.

USDA FSIS recall requirements

Official establishments and affected meat, poultry, and egg-product operations within FSIS authority, according to the cited provisions · In force. FSIS recall rules and directives address written recall procedures, notification, event assessment, classification, public communication, effectiveness, and the voluntary removal of affected products from commerce.

EU General Food Law traceability

Food and feed business operators within the scope of EU food law, including the traceability provisions in Article 18 · In force as amended. Article 18 establishes traceability across stages of production, processing, and distribution and requires operators to identify suppliers and business recipients and make information available to competent authorities on demand.

EU animal-origin food traceability requirements

Food of animal origin within the Regulation's scope and relevant EU food business operators · In force. The Regulation specifies traceability information that operators must make available for consignments of food of animal origin, including descriptions, quantities, dispatching and receiving parties, references, and dates.

Canadian food traceability requirements

Food businesses and activities within the applicable scope of the Safe Food for Canadians Act and Regulations · In force. Part 5 requires defined food identification, one-step-back and one-step-forward records, retention, accessibility in Canada, authority production, and traceability labeling for covered businesses and activities.

GS1 EPCIS and CBV 2.0

Voluntary global implementation unless adopted through contract, policy, or another applicable requirement · Current published standard family. EPCIS provides a common model and interfaces for sharing supply-chain visibility events, while CBV supplies standardized vocabulary for business steps, dispositions, sources, destinations, and related event meaning.

GS1 Global Traceability Standard

Global voluntary implementation across supply chains unless made applicable through contract, policy, or another instrument · Current published standard. The standard defines a business-process framework for parties to identify traceable objects and locations, capture key data, share information, and support traceability across supply chains.

ISO 22005 food-chain traceability

Voluntary global use by organizations at any step in the feed and food chain unless adopted through contract, certification scope, policy, or law · Published and confirmed current by ISO in 2022. ISO 22005 gives principles and basic requirements for designing and implementing a feed and food traceability system capable of determining product history or location against defined objectives.

ISO 22000 food safety management systems

Voluntary global use by organizations in the food chain unless made applicable through certification, contract, policy, or law · Published current edition. ISO 22000 establishes requirements for a food-safety management system combining communication, system management, prerequisite programs, and hazard-control principles.

Codex General Principles of Food Hygiene

International reference framework; legal or contractual effect depends on adoption and applicable instruments · Current Codex code as revised. The Codex code describes general food-hygiene principles and HACCP-system guidance, including management commitment, prerequisite programs, hazard control, verification, documentation, and communication.

FDA Food Traceability List

Foods specifically identified on the list and foods containing listed foods in the form described by FDA, subject to rule definitions and exemptions · Current official list. The list identifies foods for which FDA determined additional traceability records are appropriate and necessary, with commodity descriptions that affect rule applicability.

The operating-domain lens

Trading-partner event integrity

The operating system for preserving the identity, meaning, sequence, source, and correction history of food movements as records cross farms, vessels, plants, warehouses, distributors, retailers, foodservice, and technology networks. The crosswalk links 6 capabilities and 4 authority records.

Transformation and lot genealogy

The internal record connecting incoming food and packaging lots to processing, commingling, rework, split, repack, relabel, yield, and output lots without erasing the historical relationship when records are corrected. The crosswalk links 6 capabilities and 3 authority records.

Food, lot, location, and party identity

The governed master-data layer that distinguishes foods, forms, ingredients, lots, locations, businesses, farms, vessels, facilities, and recipients so events can be joined without treating similar labels as the same entity. The crosswalk links 5 capabilities and 4 authority records.

Interoperability and partner exchange

The technical and operating ability to send, receive, validate, query, correct, and retain food traceability data across different platforms, formats, identifiers, and partner capabilities. The crosswalk links 5 capabilities and 4 authority records.

Recall scope and response readiness

The governed process for investigating a food-safety or labeling concern, identifying potentially affected lots and recipients, preserving uncertainty, making accountable decisions, communicating, controlling inventory, documenting disposition, and testing effectiveness. The crosswalk links 6 capabilities and 4 authority records.

Food-safety, quality, and traceability records

The relationship between lot and event records and the preventive-control, test, inspection, deviation, complaint, supplier, sanitation, environmental, and corrective-action evidence used to assess food and process conditions. The crosswalk links 6 capabilities and 3 authority records.

Specification, allergen, and label lineage

The controlled relationship among ingredients, suppliers, formulations, specifications, allergens, claims, packaging, labels, and the lots produced under each approved version. The crosswalk links 6 capabilities and 3 authority records.

Primary production, harvest, and initial packing

The identities and event records that begin food-chain traceability at farms, fields, harvest crews, cooling locations, vessels, first land-based receiving, initial packing, aquaculture sites, and raw-material aggregation points. The crosswalk links 6 capabilities and 4 authority records.

Regulatory applicability and evidence governance

The controlled process for determining which foods, activities, facilities, trading partners, jurisdictions, dates, exemptions, standards, and response obligations affect a traceability program—and preserving the source and approval behind each conclusion. The crosswalk links 6 capabilities and 5 authority records.

How to use the crosswalk

Determine applicability with qualified owners, identify affected records and workflows, map each expectation to an accountable decision and retained evidence, then use capability and organization pages to frame a technology evaluation. A mapping is editorial navigation—not a conformity or legal conclusion.

Methodology

1. Define the market boundary, exclusions, operating models, and capability taxonomy before classifying organizations.
2. Require an approved official source for organization inclusion and each documented capability.
3. Keep authority sources, provider claims, independent observations, editorial synthesis, and unknowns in separate evidence states.
4. Use one primary operating model per organization while retaining adjacent scope in the narrative record.
5. Preserve source URLs, review dates, material changes, limitations, and correction history.

Limitations

• The maintained population is substantial but not claimed to be a complete global market.
• Official public documentation may omit available capabilities or lag product and service changes.
• Documented positioning does not measure product depth, configured availability, independent performance, implementation effort, customer outcome, or commercial terms.
• Authority mappings are editorial research aids and do not establish buyer-specific applicability or product conformity.
• No organization may purchase inclusion, classification, finding, or correction outcome.

Reproducibility and updates

The report is reproduced from the provider registry, normalized facts and evidence, authority and domain records, and the publication taxonomy. A material change requires a dated source and editorial explanation. Historical values remain available through the change ledger rather than disappearing when the current record changes.