Traceability requirements

1. Food business operators, at all stages of production processing and distribution, shall ensure that the following information concerning the batches of seeds intended for the production of sprouts, or the batches of sprouts is kept on records. The food business operator shall also ensure that the information needed to comply with these provisions is transmitted to the food business operator to whom the seeds or sprouts are supplied:

an accurate description of the seeds or sprouts, including the taxonomic name of the plant;

the volume or quantity of the seeds or sprouts supplied;

where the seeds or sprouts had been dispatched from another food business operator, the name and address of:

the food business operator from which the seeds or sprouts have been dispatched;

the consignor (owner) if different from the food business operator from which the seeds or sprouts have been dispatched;

the name and address of the food business operator to whom the seeds or sprouts are dispatched;

the name and address of the consignee (owner), if different from the food business operator to whom the seeds or sprouts are dispatched;

a reference identifying the batch, as appropriate;

the date of dispatch.

2. The information referred to in paragraph 1 may be kept on records and transmitted in any appropriate form, provided that it is easily retrievable by the food business operator to whom the seeds or sprouts are supplied.

3. The food business operators must transmit the relevant information referred to in paragraph 1 on a daily basis. The records referred to in paragraph 1 shall be updated on a daily basis and kept available for a sufficient time after the sprouts can be assumed to have been consumed.

4. The food business operator shall provide the information referred to in paragraph 1 to the competent authority, upon request, without undue delay.

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 208/2013 of 11 March 2013 on traceability requirements for sprouts and seeds intended for the production of sprouts