FOOD TRACEABILITYLEDGER

Follow the food. Preserve the record.

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

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 931/2011 on traceability requirements for food of animal origin

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 forceBinding EU regulation within scope

What the authority record establishes

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.

Binding EU regulation within scope

The exact official title, issuing body, jurisdiction, version or application record, and linked source define the scope of this page. Readers should not transfer the authority's status to a commercial product or infer transaction-, patient-, system-, site-, or organization-specific applicability from this summary.

Why it matters to this market

Commodity and consignment-specific data must remain linked to business parties and dates even when internal batches or external identifiers differ.

Affected operating stages

  • Product And Quantity Identification
  • Dispatching Operator
  • Consignee Identification
  • Lot Batch Or Consignment Reference
  • Dispatch Date
  • Authority Availability

Capabilities to examine

Item Product Location And Party Identification

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for item product location and party identification.

Traceability Lot Code And Lot Genealogy

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for traceability lot code and lot genealogy.

Receiving Shipping And Distribution Event Capture

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for receiving shipping and distribution event capture.

Supplier Facility And Trading-Partner Master Data

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for supplier facility and trading-partner master data.

Affected buyer audiences

  • EU protein dairy egg and seafood operators
  • importers and distributors
  • quality and regulatory teams
  • logistics and technology teams

Implementation questions

  • Which entities, products, populations, transactions, systems, sites, or jurisdictions are actually within scope?
  • What is binding, what is guidance, and what is a technical or consensus standard?
  • Which publication, adoption, effective, application, transition, and enforcement dates differ?
  • Who owns legal, clinical, quality, regulatory, policy, or operational interpretation?
  • How will a source revision affect open work and historical decisions?

Interpretation boundary

The publication does not determine commodity scope, exemptions, national enforcement, or record adequacy for a particular consignment.