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Seafood traceability: current needs, available tools, and biotechnological challenges for origin certification.

Miguel Costa Leal¹, Tânia Pimentel¹, Fernando Ricardo¹

¹Departamento de Biologia & CESAM, Universidade de Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal.

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Consumer demand for food traceability is rising due to globalization and safety concerns, especially for seafood. This overview examines tools and challenges for global seafood origin tracking to ensure safety and combat fraud.

Keywords:

biochemistry certificate of origin food safety geochemistry molecular biology supply chain

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Area of Science:

Food Science
Fisheries Management
Analytical Chemistry

Background:

Growing consumer awareness of food safety and origin.
Seafood's perishable nature and global importance as a protein source.
Challenges in implementing effective seafood traceability systems.

Purpose of the Study:

To provide an overview of current needs for seafood origin traceability.
To identify limitations and challenges in implementing traceability.
To explore the optimization of geochemical, biochemical, and molecular tools for global application.

Main Methods:

Review of existing literature on seafood traceability methods.
Focus on geochemical, biochemical, and molecular analytical techniques.
Analysis of implementation challenges and potential solutions.

Main Results:

Identified significant societal needs for seafood origin traceability.
Highlighted limitations in current traceability implementation.
Discussed the potential of optimized analytical tools for global use.

Conclusions:

Seafood traceability is crucial for enforcing food safety regulations and fisheries control.
Traceability helps combat fraud in the seafood industry.
Optimized tools are needed to meet consumer and authority expectations for seafood origin verification.