The European Commission has unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) platform , TraceMap , to speed up the detection of food fraud, outbreaks of contaminated food and foodborne diseases across the EU.As of today, TraceMap is accessible to national authorities in all Member States , allowing them to better target controls and carry out more in-depth investigations, without requiring additional resources.
It will enable rapid and efficient action across the EU, making the food chain safer and more transparent when potential problems are reported.
TraceMap helps national authorities to:
- Strengthen food safety, screening, crisis management and consumer protection
- ensure that unsafe and non-compliant products are removed from the market more quickly, including in the event of food outbreaks
- improve the effective control of imported goods, in line with the EU Vision for Agriculture and Food
- improve screening accuracy and anti-fraud measures throughout the supply chain
- identify connections between operators and shipments across borders
- Rapidly identify high-risk operators and products
- detect suspicious patterns in trade and production flows.
Before TraceMap , tracking products and operators throughout the supply chain meant relying primarily on manual document checks and direct exchanges between authorities , which was time-consuming and resource-intensive.
TraceMap solves many of these problems with fast, automated AI analysis and traceability mapping, graphs, and search functions that:
- visualize complex supply chains as networks
- help discover connections between operators, products and deliveries
- enable competent authorities in EU member countries to quickly search, filter and extract relevant data with advanced AI
- Easily find the right information, at the right time, in EU databases and agri-food systems such as the EU's system for the control and trade of animals, food, feed and plants ( TRACES ), the Alert and Cooperation Network ( ACN ), and the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed ( RASFF ). (Source: https://ec.europa.eu/ )