title: Development and evaluation of an intelligent traceability system for frozen tilapia fillet processing.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The main export varieties in China are brand-name, high-quality bred aquatic products. Among them, tilapia has become the most important and fast-growing species since extensive consumer markets in North America and Europe have evolved as a result of commodity prices, year-round availability and quality of fresh and frozen products. As the largest tilapia farming country, China has over one-third of its tilapia production devoted to further processing and meeting foreign market demand.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Using by tilapia fillet processing, this paper introduces the efforts for developing and evaluating ITS-TF: an intelligent traceability system integrated with statistical process control (SPC) and fault tree analysis (FTA). Observations, literature review and expert questionnaires were used for system requirement and knowledge acquisition; scenario simulation was applied to evaluate and validate ITS-TF performance.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results show that traceability requirement is evolved from a firefighting model to a proactive model for enhancing process management capacity for food safety; ITS-TF transforms itself as an intelligent system to provide functions on early warnings and process management by integrated SPC and FTA. The valuable suggestion that automatic data acquisition and communication technology should be integrated into ITS-TF was achieved for further system optimization, perfection and performance improvement.
authors.affiliation: China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, People's Republic of China.|Beijing Laboratory of Food Quality and Safety, Beijing 100083, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Xinqing
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.affiliation: China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, People's Republic of China.|Beijing Laboratory of Food Quality and Safety, Beijing 100083, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Zetian
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Fu
authors.affiliation: Beijing Information S&T University, Beijing 100083, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Lin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Qi
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
authors.forename: Trebar
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mira
authors.affiliation: China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, People's Republic of China.|Beijing Laboratory of Food Quality and Safety, Beijing 100083, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Xiaoshuan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017756:Aquaculture; D001947:Breeding; D002681:China; D003132:Commerce; D003257:Consumer Product Safety; D005060:Europe; D059022:Food Safety; D005523:Food Supply / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D009656:North America; D017747:Seafood / Q000032:analysis*; D017210:Tilapia
keywords: fault tree analysis (FTA); intelligent traceability system; statistical process control (SPC); tilapia fillet