Feedback and Caveats

If you are reading this, you have been asked by the Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability to provide your expert guidance in the development of the Best Practices and Implementation Guide for Seafood Traceability and Interoperability. The following will give you a sense of our process, known issues, caveats and feedback requested.

Process

Members of the Global Dialogue will be presented with this document first for their feedback, followed by members of the Dialogue Advisory Group. Once all feedback has been reviewed and processed, we will release another draft for final comment prior to initiating a pilot to test this guide in real life.

Known Issues

• Defining, validating and securely sharing catch areas
• Implementing EPCIS with JSON for blockchain and other data sharing protocols {scheduled for release in EPCIS 2.0 in 2020}
• Cost/Benefit to various approaches will be evaluated in planned pilots

Caveats and FYIs

• This guide shows a representative supply chain based on the GDST secretariat's pilot process. It contains a limited number of critical tracking events for demonstration purposes. Additional scenarios will be shared in the open source repository in a collaborative effort with industry and traceability developers. The repository and wiki will be further developed during the pilot process through March 2020.
• The pilot process will be used to test, refine and evaluate cost/benefit of various approaches and solutions and provide a recommended adoption roadmap for the industry.
• Links to an open source repository will be provided. This will include sample files and example code for usage in pilots and productive applications.
• In addition to regulatory requirements, knowledge and usage of GS1 Standards is critical for organizations that ship to retailers and foodservice companies. Therefore, this guide introduces the reader to both and incorporates them into the interoperability guidance.
• This is not intended to be a new IUU certification scheme or mandated standard. The goal is to provide useful tools that the industry broadly adopts because they make sense.
• The KDE capture and share indicates redundancy -- this is to mitigate the risk of breaks in the chain or if a participant does not have visibility to prior steps (for a variety of reasons).

Feedback Requested

• Does this guide provide you with what you need to develop interoperable traceability systems?
• Is this guide clearly written and presented? Can the guide be used in a reproduceable manner (EPCIS files from this guidance are produced similar ways for similar supply chain scenarios)?
• Are there any additions or deletions that would improve this guide?