Aug 07 2008
Food Tracer
EU Identification Mark comprising
UK - country code
AZ020 - establishment code
EC - European Commission indication
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Decode your food in 3 steps
- Find the EU identification mark code on any EU meat or dairy product.
- Enter the code in the Food Tracer search to find the corresponding food producer and site.
Please note- The Tracing Paper search currently only works for UK codes (as detailed in the resources below).
- For other country codes, check the list of national codes or try the above search across the whole web.
- For best results, omit the ‘EC’, ‘UK’ and any preceding ‘0’s and leave a space between the alphabetic and numeric parts of the code (eg ‘AZ 20‘ for “UK AZ020 EC”, ‘5007‘ for UK 5007 EC).
- Use The Tracing Paper’s custom Food Industry Search to find further information on your food’s producer - or just follow the custom search link from the producer listings.
Food tracer resources
The Tracing Paper is developing resources to provide accessible information on the sources of our food:
- UK Abattoirs / Slaughterhouses - complete listing of all abattoirs in the UK - now arranged by region
- UK Dairies / Milk Processors - complete listing of all milk processors in the UK - now arranged by region
- UK Meat Product Producers - complete listing of all producers of meat products in the UK
Now improved!
The Tracing Paper’s listings of abattoirs and milk processors have been extended to cover all of the UK and split into regions for easier access, with an improved custom food industry search for further information on businesses and meat industry news.
Further information on Every Business
Follow the food industry search for more info links for a custom search of selected authoritative websites, including the Competition Commission; Trading Standards, DairyCo and trade journals (including the Farmers Weekly and Meat Trades Journal).
Development
Food Tracer is currently in development, please comment and help us improve.
Hi
I am after a comprehensive list of all yoghurt and fromage frais products on
the current market.
I also need the health mark for each product, can anybody help with this?
Thank you
Helen - if you download the source spreadsheet for the list of UK dairies (available from the Food Standards Agency milk and dairy page) you’ll see that each establishment is listed separately for each product. This means you can easily filter / sort the rows and extract the details of those producing yoghurt and fromage frais. This will give you the producers and their health mark numbers - but not the product names.