FOOD TRACEABILITYLEDGER

Follow the food. Preserve the record.

Authority library

Regulation and standards record

Each record preserves the issuing authority, jurisdiction, instrument or authority type, legal or operating status, version and application dates, affected audience, workflow mapping, source link, and interpretation boundary.

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 · U.S. federal regulation

FDA Food Traceability Rule

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.

Final rule in force; FDA proposed a compliance-date extension and Congress directed non-enforcement before July 20, 2028U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Covered persons and Food Traceability List foods under the definitions, requirements, exemptions, modified requirements, and waivers in Subpart S · Codified U.S. federal regulation

Codified U.S. food traceability requirements

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.

Current codified regulationU.S. Food and Drug Administration / Electronic Code of Federal Regulations

Covered facilities that manufacture, process, pack, or hold human food for U.S. consumption, subject to scope and exemptions · U.S. federal regulation and official implementation record

FDA Preventive Controls for Human Food

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.

In forceU.S. Food and Drug Administration

Covered shippers, loaders, carriers by motor or rail vehicle, and receivers engaged in U.S. food transportation, subject to exemptions and waivers · U.S. federal regulation

FDA Sanitary Transportation Rule

The rule establishes sanitary transportation practices involving vehicles and equipment, operations, training, and records for covered food movements.

In forceU.S. Food and Drug Administration

Covered U.S. importers of human and animal food, subject to definitions, modified requirements, and exemptions · U.S. federal regulation

FDA Foreign Supplier Verification Programs Rule

FSVP requires covered importers to perform risk-based foreign supplier verification activities and maintain records for food and supplier approval and oversight.

In forceU.S. Food and Drug Administration

Official establishments and affected meat, poultry, and egg-product operations within FSIS authority, according to the cited provisions · U.S. federal regulation and official recall-process guidance

USDA FSIS recall requirements

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.

In forceU.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service

Food and feed business operators within the scope of EU food law, including the traceability provisions in Article 18 · Directly applicable European Union regulation

EU General Food Law traceability

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.

In force as amendedEuropean Parliament and Council of the European Union

Food of animal origin within the Regulation's scope and relevant EU food business operators · Directly applicable European Union implementing regulation

EU animal-origin food traceability requirements

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.

In forceEuropean Commission

Food businesses and activities within the applicable scope of the Safe Food for Canadians Act and Regulations · Canadian federal regulation and official guidance

Canadian food traceability requirements

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.

In forceCanadian Food Inspection Agency

Voluntary global implementation unless adopted through contract, policy, or another applicable requirement · Open industry data-exchange standard

GS1 EPCIS and CBV 2.0

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.

Current published standard familyGS1

Global voluntary implementation across supply chains unless made applicable through contract, policy, or another instrument · Voluntary industry standard

GS1 Global Traceability 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.

Current published standardGS1

Voluntary global use by organizations at any step in the feed and food chain unless adopted through contract, certification scope, policy, or law · International consensus standard

ISO 22005 food-chain traceability

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.

Published and confirmed current by ISO in 2022International Organization for Standardization

Voluntary global use by organizations in the food chain unless made applicable through certification, contract, policy, or law · International consensus standard

ISO 22000 food safety management systems

ISO 22000 establishes requirements for a food-safety management system combining communication, system management, prerequisite programs, and hazard-control principles.

Published current editionInternational Organization for Standardization

International reference framework; legal or contractual effect depends on adoption and applicable instruments · Intergovernmental code of practice

Codex General Principles of Food Hygiene

The Codex code describes general food-hygiene principles and HACCP-system guidance, including management commitment, prerequisite programs, hazard control, verification, documentation, and communication.

Current Codex code as revisedCodex Alimentarius Commission

Foods specifically identified on the list and foods containing listed foods in the form described by FDA, subject to rule definitions and exemptions · Official list established under FSMA Section 204

FDA Food Traceability List

The list identifies foods for which FDA determined additional traceability records are appropriate and necessary, with commodity descriptions that affect rule applicability.

Current official listU.S. Food and Drug Administration

How to read the library

Binding requirements, official guidance, technical standards, implementation guides, program rules, and authority data are not interchangeable. Each page names the source class and states what it can and cannot establish about an organization or product.