Trends in the Development of Traceability Systems for Fish Products.

The consumption of aquatic products of Romania for the last ten years it has grown tremendously and will continue to increase in the next years. Therefore, food safety and control become a great concern of the consumers. In addition to risk to public health, food crises lead to economic crises due to direct and indirect (damage to reputation and brand name) costs of product recall. The reinforcement of confidence in aquatic products depends on good fishery supply chain management and traceability. A traceability system is considered as an effective tool to guarantee safety in fish products and improve the supply chain transparency. The trends at the international level are the implementation of the systems that can track the traceability of fish product using the new ITC technologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]