Welcome to

Traceability

Welcome to

Traceability

Quality Problems:• In the recent years, EU has rejected many shrimp

consignments from Bangladesh being the products were found to have metabolites of banned nitrofurans and other hazardous chemicals contaminants.

• Nitrofuran and its metabolites detected specially in the fresh water prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) during recent past years

• This incidence seriously affected the image of Bangladesh frozen foods and threatened up growing international export market

• Currently shrimp export from Bangladesh to EU countries is facing a number of key issues and constrains, among which traceability is the most important

BANNING OF NITROFURAN DRUGS

• A. Furaltadone - banned in 1993• B. Nitrofurantoin - banned in

1993• C. Nitrofurazone - banned in 1993• D. Furazolidone - banned in 1995

Nitrofuran metabolites or bound

residuesFURAZOLIDONE

H2N N O

O

AOZ

FURALTADONE

AMOZ

H2N N O

O

N

O

NITROFURANTOIN H2N N NH

O

O

AHD

H2N N NH2

O

SEM

NITROFURAZONE

Alert Notifications 2005 – 2009

SL. No.

Year Total Export to EU (MT)

Total No. of Alerts

Causes of Alerts

01. 2005 17,790.52(2004-05)

04 Nitrofurans

02. 2006 18,211.52(2005-06)

22 Nitrofurans

03. 2007 23,776.37(2006-07)

03 CAP, Nitrofurans& Decomposition

04 2008 (34,560.00)(2007-08)

15 Nitrofurans

05 2009 (29,760.00)(2008-09)

64 Nitrofurans

TraceabilityTraceability means the ability to trace and follow a food,

feed, food-producing animal or substance intended to be, or expected to be incorporated into a food or feed, through all stages of production, processing and distribution

Legal requirements:EC regulation 178/2002 stresses establishing traceability

system in all steps of food production, processing and distributions.

Any country willing to export fish products into EU must meet traceability requirements as stated in EU regulation

Accordingly, Traceability has been adopted as food safety protocols in the amended Fish Inspection and Quality Control rules, 2008.

Needed maintaining one step down (receiving end) and one step up (delivery end) traceability records

Started with registration of shrimp ghers and formulation of gher area coding system.

Follow-up trial conducted in Cox’s Bazar with processors (Koliarchar Sea Foods) supplier,and depot owners and farmers of Ukhiya pilot to test the traceability

Follow-up trial conducted in Rampal of Bagerhat with processors (Fresh Foods Ltd) supplier, depot owners and farmers

Follow-up trial conducted on traceability of Modern Sea Foods Ltd., Khulna processors, supplier, depot owners and farmers

Present Practices of Collection in Shrimp Value Chain

21 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Small depots

(1-5 mixing)

Small depots

(6-10) mixing )

Large Depot

(1-10 mixing)

Receiving in the industry

Recommended Traceability System in Shrimp Value Chain

01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

Record farm information with Code. no.

Depot

Record the farm code of collected shrimp

(01-10)

License no.

Record receiving information in processing plants

Record product information

Recommended Traceability System in Shrimp Value Chain

Gher Registration

Name of District Total No. of Gher

Bagerhat 66,507Khulna 61,667

Satkhira 24,318Jessore 14,080Narail 4,960

Cox,s Bazar 4293

Gopalgonj 3500

Total 179,325

Tested in supply chain of three processing industries in three pilot upazillas

Industry

Supplier Supplier Supplier

Depots

Farms

•Tested in supply chain of three processing industries in three pilot upazillas.

Government Role

GOB approved the Traceability Framework and ordered for countrywide implementation.

About 90-95% farms were already registered.

419 DOF officials, 993 depot owners, 294 factory personnel and 23706 farmers were trained

All the shrimp processing plants started traceability system

FVO mission during their last visit acknowledged the traceability system in place

Action Plan

Completion of gher registrationDepot licensingIndustry wise training of farmers and

depots in value chainFollow-up and monitoring the

traceability documentationCompletion of traceability

implementation in all value chains in 2011

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Contact:Md. Mizanur RahmanLecturerDepartment of Fisheries TechnologyPatuakhali Science and Technology University

Email: mizanfbau@yahoo.com