AZTI-Tecnalia is one of the institutions chosen to work on a recent book published on the latest scientific advances on fisheries products. The book, Fishery Products: quality, safety and authenticity, published by Wiley-Blackwell (2009), is a tool for all those enterprises working in and with fish processing and fish farming, and who are interested in evaluating the safety, authenticity and quality of the products that they are investigating or marketing.

The chapter analysing the concept of traceability applied to the fisheries sector was written by Ms Begoña Pérez-Villarreal from AZTI-Tecnalia, together with Erling P. Larsen from DTU-Aqua in Denmark; examples being provided as to how the different links in the chain are being implemented.

One of the most important aspects in order to achieve efficient and efficacious traceability, according to the authors, is to ensure that the systems of traceability implemented are correctly validated. This is a topic in which AZTI-Tecnalia has worked on over recent years in various food sectors.

Another aspect that has special relevance and in which important advances have been made is authenticity, i.e. the condition of being authentic, reliable or genuine. This definition, applied to the fisheries sector, distinguishes between various aspects such as the identification of fish species or that of geographical origins or the discrimination between various methods of production (farmed or wild fish) and processing techniques.

Translation: Basque Research

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