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Identification marks and health marks are the oval-shaped markings found on food products of animal origin in the European Community, required by European Union food safety regulations. It identifies the processing establishment that produced and packaged the product and that is therefore responsible for its hygiene status. These marks are meant as a monitoring and tracking aid for food safety and customs inspectors, and each food processing facility dealing with food products of animal origin is required to keep records of its trading partners and their approval numbers (in the case they process said food products), both for buying and selling. The identification and health marks are not an indication for the specific origin of a particular piece of food by themselves, as they do not encode the location of the farm that provided the initial raw product or livestock. However, consumers could use them to identify the actual manufacturer behind supermarket store brand products, where the labeling deliberately lacks any information about the real producer, which could be one that otherwise produces high-quality products using its regular brandings. == Regulations == The European Union has multiple regulations regarding food safety and quality control in the food industry. These are: * the EC/852/2004 regulation, regarding general food safety (commonly known as the Food Law), * the EC/853/2004 regulation, regarding processing and trading of food products of animal origin, and * the EC/854/2004 regulation, regarding the veterinary and laboratory examination of livestock and meat products. The EC/853/2004 regulation defines the ''identification mark'' (to identify the last plant or facility which processed the item), and the EC/854/2004 regulation defines the ''health mark'' (to identify the slaughterhouse for raw meat or the dairy facility for raw milk, the vet's name being optional). The former is in effect only when there is no need for the latter, though they use essentially the same marking style. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「EC identification and health marks」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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