Nofima Market convenes and participates in the ISO (International Standards Organization) work on traceability for seafood products. The initial plan is to make one standard for captured fish and one standard forfarmed fish; other seafood standards (i.e. shellfish) might be developed later. The first draft of the new ISO standards will be based on the existing European standards "CWA 14659 Traceability of fishery products - Specification of information to be recorded in farmed fish distribution chains" and "CWA 14660 Traceability of fishery products - Specification on the information to be recorded in captured fish distribution chains" which were developed as part of the TraceFish project, also led by Nofima (Fiskeriforskning).
One of the aims of ISO's TC234 fisheries and aquaculture is to create international standards for traceability of seafood products. Some of the areas that this could have implications for are food safety, branding, sustainability and IUU catch (Illegal Unregulated Unreported).
This work follows hot on the heels of Nofima Markeds contribution to the ISO standard ISO22005:2007 ‘Traceability in the feed and food chain -General principles and basic requirements for system design and implementation'.
In cooperation with:
Standard Norge, DTU Aqua (Denmark), Thailand Department of Fisheries, Thai Industrial Standards Institute, Seafish Industry Authority (UK), Fisheries and Oceans Canada, British Columbia Seafood Alliance, CITTPM (France), OFIMER (France), CIPA (France), Nederlands Normalisatie-instituut, USFDA (USA), DGPA - Tunta de Andalusia (Spain), AZTI (Spain), Spanish Ministry of Environmental, Rural and Marin affairs, Marine Stewardship Council
