Denmark Helps Tanzania on Food Traceability

As a result of the need to implement traceability, the Government of Tanzania has received assistance from the Government of Denmark through its aid agency, DANIDA, under the Business Sector Programme Support II (BSPS II) to improve product quality to gain market access. The project BSPS II under the component 'market access' with sub component 'Product Quality Improvement' has four outputs which are: standarzidation, packaging, traceability and accreditation of laboratories. The project is being managed by the Ministry of Industry and Trade and TIRDO is implementing the traceability output. It is expected to last for the next two years. Under the EAN-UCC all products will have to bear a bar code which will have many details about the product, ingredients, country of origin, expiry date, production date, company and other details which will describe all unique features of the product. All products must have a label showing the country of origin and should a problem arise information about the product that has been tampered with must be obtained within four hours.

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