The Fairtrade Foundation requires licencees to use marginally different onpack text depending on whether a product is manufactured using
physical traceability or mass balance, but the differences are so subtle as to be overlooked by all but the most assiduous of label readers.
Historically small - and medium - sized processors of Fairtrade ingredients worked to full
physical traceability, that is, they were able to track a bag of cocoa beans through their factory and tell you which batch of chocolate the beans ended up in.
Physical traceability and mass balance deliver exactly the same amount of added value to the Fairtrade farmer.
Not exact matches
In order to adapt the product to the wine industry, the cork stopper undergoes a wide range of control processes including
physical, chemical, microbiological and organoleptic parameters and classification by image analysis and
traceability.