Ethical traceability

Christian Coff

Ethical traceability

In: Ethics and the politics of food

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Christian Coff

Christian Coff Director of Research, Centre for Ethics and Law, Valkendorfsgade 30, 3 ^rdfloor, 1151 Copenhagen, Denmark, coff@ethiclaw.dk

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Pages:: 56–60

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3920/9789086865758_007

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The paper gives a broad introduction to the notions of food traceability and ethical traceability. Present and potential implications for the agri-food sector are examined. Traceability is the ability to trace the history, application or location of an entity by means of recorded identifications. Today, food traceability is an instrument that serves many purposes: food safety, supply chain management, fraud control and prevention, valorisation of products/verification of product claims. It could also serve as a means for consumer information and communication with consumers. The term 'ethical traceability' is proposed as a tool for addressing specific ethical dimensions of food production practices. Ethical traceability is about keeping track of the ethical aspects of food production practices and the conditions under which the food is produced. It is a means to capture ethical values in the production history of food and represents in this sense a narrative and hermeneutic perspective on food ethics. Ethical traceability can serve as a tool for all actors in the food chain: suppliers, producers, processors, retailers and consumers.

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Ethics and the politics of food

Preprints of the 6th Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics

E-Book ISBN:: 9789086865758

Publisher:: Wageningen Academic

Print Publication Date:: 10 Oct 2006

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