The Path of Food Safety in Tuna Production Chain

In all areas of food production has become a priority to ensure the quality, safety andsecurity products. For this reason was born the food traceability: or those technologies and methodsof production and control to monitor a food product from farm to consumer in all steps frompreparation to processing and distribution.The recent legislation in the food, both at European and international, sees at the heart of theinterests the protection and information for consumers.In 2000 and 2001 were issued two regulations, derived from decrees of Agriculture and ForestryMinistry, on the market in fishery products and aquaculture. These regulations are introducedinformation on the area of capture, as the FAO (for the species caught) or country of origin (for thespecies fished in freshwater or farmed).This research aims to reconstruct the path of this food for marketing through all stages of production,processing and distribution, analyzing the critical points and defining the rules for the food safety ofthe product.These rules, applied to fisheries and aquaculture are reflected in the importance of providinginformation on the trade name of the species, the method of production and area of capture,processing and marketing. The proposed methodology has been applied in the study of arepresentative farms of the territory in question, leader in Italy and Europe in the field of processing,marketing and distribution of canned tuna, also on based of EC Regulation 178/02.