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Vol: 53(67) No: 2 / June 2008        

FOODTRACE – Food Quality Control and Traceability Framework
Gheorghe Sebestyen
Company for Applied Informatics SA, str. G. Bilascu no. 107, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, phone: +40 264 595477, e-mail: gheorghe.sebestyen@cs.utcluj.ro, web: http://www.cianet.ro
Sergiu Nedevschi
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Computer Science, str. G. Baritiu no. 26-28, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, phone: +40 401219, e-mail: Nedevschi.Sergiu@cs.utcluj.ro, web: http://www.cs.utcluj.ro
Gavril Saplacan
Company for Applied Informatics SA, str. G. Bilascu no. 107, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, web: http://www.cianet.ro
Mihai Cerghizan
SISTEC SA, Cluj-Napoca, str. Deva no. 1-7, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, phone: 0264 590282, e-mail: office@sistec.ro, web: http://www.sistec.ro
Nicolae Todor
Institutul Oncologic “Ion Chiricuta”, Cluj-Napoca, str. G. Bilascu , Cluj-Napoca, Romania, phone: +40 264-598 361, e-mail: office@iocn.ro, web: http://www.iocn.ro
Mircea Rusu
Company for Applied Informatics SA, str. G. Bilascu no. 107, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, e-mail: office@cianet.ro


Keywords: traceability, food safety, food supply chain, HACCP, web services, service-oriented architecture.

Abstract
Building a food supply chain traceability network requires that each involved organization must be able to inter-operate with its business partners. To provide for this requirement’s achievement a quality control and traceability framework was designed as part of the FoodTrace national research project. Implementations of this framework can be deployed on each node of the food supply chain to allow flexible data acquisition and inter-partner information exchanges thus also complying to the requirements of European and national regulations for quality control and traceability of food products. The proposed multi-layered framework will be presented in the following paper.

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