In the field of food safety management, the concept of traceability has been around for a long time. Implementation of nearly six years of the "Food Safety Law" requires food production and operation of the "request for certificates and invoices", check the purchase of food certificates and supplier's license, but also requires pre-packaged food packages have detailed labeling for viewing. But the concept of traceability is only in the last year or two, "red" up, which reflects a grim reality behind: the food industry disk more and more big, the industry chain more and more long, the traditional means of supervision is more and more difficult to cope with, which led to the public on the current state of food safety uneasiness inflated sense of transparency of the real food information more and more high requirements. For example, a vegetable, in the past, as long as you know where to wholesale from, now you have to know which field to grow, but also know who grows, with what kind of planting, pesticide residues more or less, heavy metals over the standard, etc..

It must be seen, limited by the production and distribution of the business status quo, the current food safety information traceability system there are still many obstacles. Take the production side of the business, some companies are stuck in the handwriting level of the ledger, scribbling, can see who the last level of suppliers is even good. As for whether the accounts have been tampered with, even the regulatory authorities to check up on the effort, the average consumer is no way to distinguish.

In addition, to create a transparent and real traceability system, but also through consumer habits, industrial characteristics and input costs and many other thresholds. For example, freshwater fish, consumers have the habit of live killing cooking, it is difficult to accept the pre-packaged cold fish, which leads to freshwater fish can not form a large-scale designated slaughter and packaging links, and from the "five lakes and the four corners of the world" of the freshwater fish will skip this link, sold to the farmers' market, the future of the relevant information on the formation of the challenge of traceability. Some people in the industry proposed to follow the pig ear tag, in the gills of the fish insert electronic tags. Can do so to increase the cost, and non-production operators of the legal obligations, is also only on paper.

However, even with all the difficulties, the establishment of food safety information traceability system has become **** knowledge. Food production operators should assume the primary responsibility for maintaining food safety, and government departments, trade associations and other active participation. As a matter of urgency, government departments should break the monopoly of various departments in the food breeding, production, circulation, catering and other aspects of the regulatory information, the establishment of a unified platform for regulators and producers and operators to share their respective information, so as to avoid the concept of traceability when the red under the various types of traceability platforms, "a swarm of" duplication of the construction of not only lead to a waste of resources, but also the various closed traceability system has become a **** knowledge. The concept of traceability is not only a waste of resources, but also a closed system of traceability, which will also form new information barriers.

More importantly, the traceability platform should be people-oriented, should set up a simple and fast window for consumers to query. Otherwise, what is the significance of a traceability platform that no consumer is willing to use? Not to the reasonable demands of the public as a starting point, only the regulatory authorities and enterprises involved, that can only be called a regulatory platform or enterprise information platform