Food Safety Atlas

Traceability and trace investigation

One lot of spice, many products

Your supplier calls: a lot of ground spice may carry . You find the lot on the delivery record. Your batch records name the spice but not its lot, and the stores used two lots across the same fortnight.

Suspect spice lotDelivered 3 weeks ago
Other lot in storesDelivered 5 weeks ago
Batch recordsName the spice, not its lot
Products using it4 recipes

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