Food Identity Preservation and Traceability

This volume examines the merger of identity preservation and traceability into IPT as it relates domestically and internationally to food safety and economics, with an emphasis on grain to illustrate trends. While the concepts behind IPT are not new, concerns during the past decade led to these ideas uniting within a single framework. This work highlights the major systems of IPT from a U.S. business perspective. The research provides a sampling of government, industry, and company approaches towards IPT systems from the 1990s to early 2007. From this readers gain a better understanding of the complexity of IPT systems, and the diverse reasons why IPT is critical for food safety and the market.