Trace2Place: Pioneering Traceability in the Red Meat Sector
Connecting farm to processor with cutting-edge RegTech solutions to streamline compliance, reduce costs, and enhance data integration for industry-wide food safety standards.
Project
Overview
Our project, Trace2Place, was designed for the Red Meat Sector to facilitate a trail for traceability from the farm gate through to processor.
Project teams and scope were developed with steering committee oversight, challenges identified, and target solutions investigated with recommendations made. The project scope was one of the first in Australia to cover data integration and
presentation from a Food Safety Standards perspective at an industy level.
Key objectives sought were:
- Identify technologies either available or in development that could provide solutions for RegTech; and
- Deploy selected technologies in a real- world scenario to determine the fit-for- purpose, cost-effective and interoperable nature of those solutions in reducing administrative and compliance burdens.
Project
Collaborators
Outcomes &
Findings
Shift RegTech adoption upstream and go international
Our Trace2Place project sought to identify and deploy technologies that enable
tracrability from paddock to processor. Our key outcomes and findings were:
- Current Business Systems | Legacy IT systems (ERP) are ill suited when it comes to external platform integration. A lack of industry and data standards makes full data integration difficult, design of new technology solutions non-coordinated with data aggregation the likely result. Solutions such as eNVD have potential if redesigned to be a traceability solution that covers more than the last step.
- Cost & Efficiency | Despite growing demand for traceabiity the customer is not prepared to pay for it. It took six months to establish traceability records and chain for 78 head of cattle with a vertically integrated supply partner. Key barriers were establishing common frameworks that identified traceability events (CTE, KDE), the availability of data in the right useable format, and the time to create APIs including policy frameworks enabling integration.
- Confidentiality & Data Sharing | Time to align expectations around confidentiality and use of data, even with a cohort with demonstrated in principle alignment and support of the project was difficult. The common findings were the fear of data loss, non authorised use of data and the legal ramifications to various stakeholders engaged in the project. The right to access and use data was prohibited by Government agencies all together.
Landscape analysis
Report
Our landscape analysis report extends on our project to encompass the full
AgriFood supply chain.
There is clear alignment with our project highlight the opportunity for extension driven by consumer and market demand and the broader challenges including regulation, standards and technology gaps.
The projects and the landscape analysis have highlighted
common elements that can be synthesised across commodities, markets and countries that we see provide a focus for traceability advancement and adoption.