Traceability Initiative

mpXML has developed a Meat and Poultry Traceability Implementation Guide as a consistent approach to traceability across all fresh food supply chains. The Meat and Poultry Traceability Implementation Guide was released in June 2010 for US suppliers, wholesalers, and retailers to provide minimum standards and best practices for managing product traceability at the shipment, pallet, case and consumer level. See sidebar to download the Guide.
 
Representatives from all major meat and poultry supplier trade associations and GS1 US participated in the development of the guide to capture a broad set of industry expertise.  Contributors were: the American Meat Institute, Butterball, LLC, Costco Wholesale Corporation, Farmland Foods, GS1 US, iTradeNetwork, Inc., Meat Solutions LLC, mpXML, USDA, National Turkey Federation, Perdue Farms, Safeway, Inc., Smithfield Foods, Supervalu, Inc., Topco Associates LLC, Tyson Foods, UFPC, Walmart, and Wegmans Foods Markets.

The next step will be to work with other GS1 member organizations to "scale-up" the recommended guidelines found in the Meat and Poultry Traceability Implementation Guide to meet regional and global requirements.