Seafood CRC: innovation in traceability for the Australian seafood industry” Austral Fisheries/Northern Prawn fishery case study

Funded Activity Summary

Austral fisheries have identified the need for establishing the efficacy and efficiency of establishing an electronic traceability system for their seafood products. An ideal system would also provide real time monitoring of temperature and location from point of harvest to retail sale and enable electronic access at purchase by the supermarket customer to provide product information.
The advantages would include
1. Unequivocal identification of lots and batches to vastly improve the tracking and accounting for prawns through the various stages of handling and dispatch through transport and retail sale.
2. Facilitation of certainty and location of product streams, ensuring logical movement of consignments in correct order to meet appropriate market requirements, confidence in stock control, and elimination of transcription and readability errors with consequent efficiencies and reductions in manpower.
3. Faster and more cost effectively identify product of concern at retail by boat or date of harvest. Reduction in product loss for both the producer and end-user and simplification of recalls are expected outcomes.
4. As more fisheries are moving to MSC so chain of custody certification is a critical part of gaining accreditation and this will facilitate that process. It would also assist in meeting ever increasing legislative and/or market standards for traceability in both domestic and export markets.
5. The ability to monitor time, temperature and location of individual cartons from harvest to retail sale would enable identification/validation of cool chain issues through the chain, possibly resulting in an improvement in product quality.
6. The ability for the consumer to, at purchase, access information on the source of their purchase, along with photos, recipes, and other information, will assist to build value in the Australia Fisheries brand. Such transparency and easy access to information may also have wider implications in improving the community perceptions of seafood.



Objectives:
1. Identify, establish and evaluate an innovative, electronic traceability system for Austral seafood products
2. Characterize the choices, issues and opportunities around implementation of innovative traceability systems for Australian seafood

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-06-2012

End Date: 30-03-2014

Funding Scheme: Funding Scheme not available

Funding Amount: $75,323.77

Funder: Fisheries Research and Development Corporation

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Other Keywords

Automation | Cost | RAC WA | Supply Chain | Tagging | Traceability

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