A traceability system in the food industry is an integrated system that tracks ingredients across processes, businesses and facilities. This can involve farm-to-fork traceability where ingredients are tracked from their point of origin, through processing within a factory or other food production facilities and then to product suppliers and finally finishing at it’s last destination in the customer’s hands.

Other food traceability systems involve tracking ingredients within a specific food production facility, such as a bakery, from the moment of goods-in to the resulting product, like a loaf of bread.