Importance of Traceability, quality and safe food for good health of human

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Importance of Traceability, quality and safe food for good health of human
Key word: Safe food, contamination, elevated risk, diseases, traceability, food hazard, food chain, eco-system, food policy

Authors:
1. Khan Mohammad Elyas (M.Sc.-Economics-University of Rome II-TV, MDS-EWU, BSS & MSS-NUB, DCE, MSDE, PGDPM),
2. Agriculturist Ripon Kumar Ghose (B.Sc. M.Sc. Agriculture, KU, AL Specialist)
Preface:
In this current century people are straggling against safe food and good life with happiness. In absent of quality and safe food, people are suffering by several types of diseases like diabetics, multidimensional cancers, many more Non/communicable diseases. Despite the relationship, coordination and proper monitoring in developing world like Bangladesh in higher risk in quality and safe food. To coordinated traceability in the food chain became outward in the 1990s following several food crises in Europe, most notably the BSE[1] crisis is a learning point for developing world. A possible significant adverse impact is going to occur in this arena if not taken any preventive and immediate action for quality and safe food through ensuring traceability in food production, processing and marketing. One notable exception is that customer traceability is not required for operators who sell solely to the final consumer. In reasons beyond there were several diseases were attack to general people / EU citizen or outsider. It was gradually increasing for long which was really cross the tolerance level in many cases. In this study we authors have been trying to identify and analysis recent food traceability situation in Bangladesh and how we could address what are the actual reason for contamination in food and which level of contaminated (intensity of adverse impact for human body) in food that’s are taking by human being in their daily food consumption. Whether it is very tuff job, but we did study on some specific sample basis particularly in food which food are mostly consume by our children and adolescents. In the middle of the last century food crisis was the main changes in the developing world but in the last two decades world has improved its food security but now her main challenges are pure and safe food including proper nutrition for our next generation survival. Considering the issue most of the international development agencies and development partners are highly focused on that issue. Meanwhile, traceable, safe and nutritious food are essential that already been address by all, but challenge is in absent of traceability some business communities and their bad tendency of profit maximization without considering human health and nutrition of general people. Recently in some developing world has forming consumer rights associations but they have a very little capacity and power for ensuring traceable safe food. It is good needs that government bodies, development partners and international development agencies are focused on this issue through R&D, advocacy, imposing policies. For instance, USAID’s has been ensuring proper and natural pesticide, insecticide and to avoid harmful element in its supported projects particularly in FFP programs [i.e. in Bangladesh: DFAP-Nobo Jatra Project, SHOUHARDO III project, etc.].



Introduction:

Why animal and living thigs get food/feed/fertilizer! Is it required for them/it! What are the importance of food/feed/fertilizer! These are safe and nutritious for animal and trees and others. A lot of questions and curiosity has been raised by human, a parent, a researcher, a scientist, and many more individual or groups/ communities. But what are the actual information and real situation that has been happening beyond the eyes. A farmer and or a producer is producing several types of products, but these products are useful for respective communities (i.e. human being, animals, trees/plants) and any health hazard are bringing these products that very harmful for those communities. It is a crore taka question to all! Is there any traceability of these products and or are these good for human who are the greatest creation of Allah/God? We researchers are always trying to identify in-depth and more possible root information either these are useful or harmful for the living things. But are we fully success or information gap made some more threat for human being. Sometime nothing goanna positive or realistic for us! Our study says there are a lot of gap (GAP) everywhere in our communities and industries. But it is remarkable that most of the gaps are removeable or reduceable and or irradicable. Considering all these we must understand about food safety, quality and traceability of food/feeds/fertilizer.

o   What is safe and quality food?

We take several types of food and drinks in a day, but do we know are they safe or not? It is difficult to general people to be identify safe and quality food. That’s why we must set a mechanism and process for ensuring safe food with quality. It may possible through traceability to ensure safe and quality food and drinks. Before are known and good understand about safe and quality food/feeds/fertilizer.
OMICS International[2] (online, 19 August 2018, 2pm): “Food safety and quality refers to the safety measures taken from the farmers/suppliers to the beneficiaries. This is to ensure all the safety, nutritional quality and acceptability of the delivered foods. As well as food acceptability by customers. Safely keeping of food will also maintain the utilizing quality of it.”

o   What is “traceability”?

Under EU law, “traceability” means the ability to track any food, feed, food-producing animal or substance that will be used for consumption, through all stages of production, processing and distribution.
1.       Why is traceability needed?
Traceability is a way of responding to potential risks that can arise in food and feed, to ensure that all food products in the EU are safe for European citizens to eat. It is vital that when national authorities or food businesses identify a risk they can trace it back to its source in order to swiftly isolate the problem and prevent contaminated products from reaching consumers. In addition, traceability allows targeted withdrawals and the provision of accurate information to the public, thereby minimising disruption to trade. Past food crises, such as dioxin contamination and BSE, have illustrated the particular importance of being able to swiftly identify and isolate unsafe foodstuffs in order to prevent them from reaching the consumer.
2.       The importance of EU-wide action
Since the internal market means that food and feed products circulate freely between EU countries, traceability can only be effective if common requirements are met across all Member States.

Legal framework traceability:
 The EU’s General Food Law entered into force in 2002 and makes traceability compulsory for all food and feed businesses. It requires that all food and feed operators implement special traceability systems. They must be able to identify where their products have come from and where they are going and to rapidly provide this information to the competent authorities. The EU has published guidelines (available on the European Commission website) which require business operators to document the names and addresses of the supplier and customer in each case, as well as the nature of the product and date of delivery. Operators are also encouraged to keep information on the volume or quantity of a product, the batch number if there is one, and a more detailed description of the product, such as whether it is raw or processed.

Specific requirements
In addition to the general requirements, sector-specific legislation applies to certain categories of food products (fruit and vegetables, beef, fish, honey, olive oil) so that consumers can identify their origin and authenticity. There are also special traceability rules for genetically modified organisms (GMOs), which ensure that the GM content of a product can be traced and require accurate labelling so that consumers can make an informed choice. In the case of animals, producers must now “tag” every one with details of their origin and, when animals are taken for slaughter, stamp them with the traceability code of the abattoir. The tools used (ear tags, passports, bar codes) may vary from one country to another but must carry the same information.


[1] Successful EU response to BSE. In the late 1980s and early 1990s Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle became first a European and later a global animal health and food safety crisis with major implications also on the trade and export of animals and derived products.

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