Global Standards for Smart Agriculture

and Food Safety Systems: Opportunities

for Developing Countries

Patrik Jonasson, GS1

Bangkok 26 September 2014

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WHAT ARE GS1 STANDARDS?

GS1 standards is a widely used and trusted supply chain standards system

for the effective management of global supply chains

• Globally unique identification for

products

• Same numbering system used

worldwide by all manufacturers,

all retailers

• Globally unique identification for

legal entities and locations

Electronic

Purchase Order or Invoice

Seller: 0614141123452

Buyer: 5012345678900

Contents:

10 units GTIN 5012345678900

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Capturing the identification key

… and beyond

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Some data carriers can carry more detailed

information about a specific unit

Item identifier Expiry date

Batch number

Serial number (21)123

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Overview of all GS1 Standards for Traceability

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TRACEABILITY PROCESS : GS1 Standards for Full Chain Traceability

incl. Despatch advice & Recall notification

GTS Global Traceability Standard CHECKLIST Control points and compliance criteria

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GS1 is the most widely used supply

chain standards in the world

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150 countries

15 million products

2 million member companies

6 billion daily transactions

International Food Safety

Requirements and the

Traceability Challenge

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What is the issue ?

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Companies are facing

multiple regulatory and

business traceability

requirements.

EC178/2002 art.18,

FSMA sec.204,

HACCP,

ISO 22000/22005

IFS, BRC, SQF,

GLOBALG.A.P

etc.

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GS1’s role in Traceability

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What ?

Regulations, HACCP,

ISO 22005

IFS, BRC, SQF,

GLOBALG.A.P…

How ?

Requirements from regulations and safety standards

(the what) usually focus on INTERNAL traceability

whereas GS1 focuses on FULL CHAIN TRACEABILITY,

including External traceability

Strengthening Food Safety and

Traceability with Global Standards

Example of the Indian and

Indonesian Agri Sectors

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GS1 India

Engagement with APEDA

• APEDA is the Agriculture and Processed Food

Products Export Development Authority, under

the Government of India

• APEDA has implemented traceability through

GS1 standards for grape exports with the

Grapenet portal which uses GS1 Global unique

Shipping Codes for consignment tracking and

Globally unique certificate identifier for

certificates to achieve farm level traceability.

• GS1 India conducted a pilot recently with

APEDA using Global Unique Farm numbers

(GLN) capturing latitude and longitude through

Hand Held Terminal on the farm along with farm

images and mapping it to APEDA tracenet ID

890 indicates GTIN

from GS1India

8 9 0 1 0 1 6 0 0 0 5 0 8

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Farm Identification in India

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Farm identification number

Uses the GS1 Global Location Number (GLN) which is

like an international unique address code

The GLN’s are used to identify (unique ID)

• Physical location

• Legal entity

• Parts of a location can be uniquely identified such as:

• Production line (of a pack station)

• Loading dock

• Compartment

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Farm Registry For Agri Sector

• Registry for exchanging information

and GPS Coordinates about the

farms locally and globally

• Minimum set of attributes including

GPS coordinates captured with a

Hand Held Device

• GLN’s will be generated by the

application and then GPS coordinates

will be captured

• Single point of local access for organic

farms

Attributes captured during registration:

*Name of the Farm

*Correspondence address

Khasra No / GAT.

Village

*District

Taluk / Mandal

*State

*PIN code

Permanent Account Number (PAN)

*Tel. Nos. with STD Code

*Mobile No.

*E-mail:-

*Name of Contact Person

*Designation

Tel No.

*Mobile No.

*Email Id

Coordinates (Captured through a GPS device)

*Latitude

*Longitude * Mandatory Data

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Farm owner Details

Lat/Long

GPS Device Organic Farms GS1 GLN Server

GLN

Lat/Long

Jhajjar Pilot and GLN proposition

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Representation on Google Earth

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Farm Registry For Agri Sector

Implementation Status:

• Implementation in progress for 1000 farms

• Plans to expand to 500000 organic farms in Phase-II

• Phase-II opportunity to cover non-organic farms as well to include fresh produce

categories like pomegranates, fresh vegetables etc

Benefits to Community:

• Unique identification of farms Instrumental in achieving farm to fork traceability

• Makes IT systems and applications interoperable: facilitating processing and

transmission of data

• Use of Farm Identification number facilitates creation of India Registry of Export Oriented

Farms growing organic produce, fresh fruits and vegetables

• Validation / Verification by buyers through visibility / track and trace upstream till farm level

• Spot validation / verification enabled for consumers using mobile devices etc.

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Distribution of

Subsidized Fertilizer

in Indonesia

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GSIN

Fertilizer Chain of Distribution

Pabrik PT PIM - LINI 1

GLN : 899XXXXXXXXX(cd)

Ekspeditur angkutan

pupuk Urea

Gudang Penyangga Pupuk (GPP)

PT. PIM - LINI 2 Propinsi

GLN : 899XXXXXXXXX(cd)

SGTIN

Gudang Penyangga Pupuk (GPP)

PT. PIM - LINI 3 Kabupaten

GLN : 899XXXXXXXXX(cd)

Ekspeditur

angkutan pupuk

Urea

Ekspeditur angkutan

pupuk Urea

Gudang Penyangga Pupuk (GPP) -

LINI 4 (Distributor)

GLN : 899XXXXXXXXX(cd)

Kios pupuk

GLN : 899XXXXXXXXX(cd)

Petani Kartu Petani

GSRN : 899XXXXXXXXX(cd)

GSIN

GSIN GSIN GSIN

GSIN

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Petani Kios Gudang Distibutor Pabrik

• No. Karung

(SGTIN)

• No. ID Petani

(GRSN).

• No. Barcode Lokasi

(GLN).

Stakeholders in Distribution Chain

• No. Kontener

(GSIN)

• No. Karung

(SGTIN)

• ID Lokasi

(GLN)

• ID Staff Penjual

• ID Penerima

Pupuk

(GRSN)

• No. Kontener

(GSIN)

• ID Lokasi (GLN)

• ID. Staff

Penerima

• Penyerah Pupuk

(GRSN)

• ID Perusahaan

(GRSN)

• No. Kontener

(GSIN)

• ID Lokasi (GLN)

• ID. Staff

Penerima

• ID Penyerah

Pupuk

(GRSN)

• ID Perusahaan

(GRSN)

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Distribution of Subsidized

Fertilizer in Indonesia

Benefits to Community:

• Unique identification of plants, warehouses, kiosks and goods giving full supply chain integrity

• As the GS1 identification is sequential and each nodes/transporters (including the

administrators) along the supply-chain are identified, certainty of delivery time and of against

tampering (quality) are accounted for reducing leakage from supply chain

• Better targeted subsidies benefits farmers directly

Benefits to Government:

• National Logistics Team can ensure the availability of the strategic goods throughout the

country AND to minimize their price disparity

• SOE mandated to produce the subsidized fertilizer is the principal party to this project. The

SOE’s increased efficiency helps improve its supply-chain

• In addition to traceability; concrete actions to reduce logistics cost are achieved (a main task

of national logistics team)

• Solving the verification issue, as proof of delivery is real-time

Contact Details

Patrik Jonasson

Patrik.jonasson@gs1.org

GS1 Global Office

www.gs1.org

Extra slides

Grapenet

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Traceability Implementation in APEDA

Grapenet Project

GrapeNet is an internet based traceability system, for monitoring

fresh grapes exported to the European Union from India up to farm

level

GrapeNet has put in place an end-to-end system for monitoring

pesticide residue, achieve product standardization and facilitate

tracing back from retail shelves to the farm of the Indian grower,

through the various stages of sampling, testing, certification and

packing

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Need for Grape Traceability

• Increasing global focus on food safety, especially on residue

monitoring, product standardization, traceability, etc.,

• Crisis in 2003 in the export of Grapes to European Union

- 17 Rapid Alerts from EU

- Indian grapes were termed `poisonous’

- It became a trade issue

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Traceability Implementation at APEDA

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Benefits of Traceability Implementation

at APEDA

Grapenet increased confidence of farmers

Introduced culture of food quality and safety

Farmers earned 40% more value from 8 Euro to 11.5 Euro per carton

of 3 kg

Benefits went to 40,000 farmers and 115 exporters

European Union recognized the efficiency and accuracy of Indian

laboratories

APEDA received National Award for Grapenet implementation. Now

under extension to other product categories