CANON · REGULATION / EU-FOOD-LAW-178

General Food Law — Traceability

DefinedTerm · Legislation

Mandatory one-step-back, one-step-forward traceability at every stage of food production and distribution. The foundational EU food safety regulation underpinning all downstream food law.

TERM CODE: eu-food-law-178
LEGISLATION IDENTIFIER: EU GFL (178/2002)
LEGISLATION JURISDICTION: European Union
LEGISLATION LEGAL FORCE: https://schema.org/InForce
EXTERNAL REFERENCE: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2002/178/oj
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