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The globalisation in the food industries contest requires more and more guarantees in order to protect consumers. Under these conditions, a good food traceability system can help to compensate for this loss of control minimising the production and the distribution of unsafe quality products as well as improving consumer confidence. The management of food product traceability depends on different factors. One of these factors is the consumer demand, which reflects the public need of food safety and security. In order to comply with this need, consumers must be reassured not only with concern to the origin of products and their traceability, but also on contaminants, which can be added to foodstuff. Because of the nature of contaminants and of the predictable negative impact on food quality and safety, the European Union has introduced a number of provisions to reduce these phenomena. For these reasons, this chapter is particularly focused on food-contact materials and the need of a mandatory traceability related to these materials. This analysis is performed from the European viewpoint, taking into account the existing regulatory and related provisions. Anyway, traceability of food contact materials is mandatory exactly as the same traceability for food products—including cheeses—and related ingredients. Because of the synergic food/packaging interaction in the ‘packaged food’ item, the same requirement is needed when speaking of edible ingredients and food contact materials at the same time.
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Mania, I., Delgado, A.M., Barone, C., Parisi, S. (2018). Food Packaging and the Mandatory Traceability in Europe. In: Traceability in the Dairy Industry in Europe. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00446-0_8
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