traceable/traceability definition

traceable/traceability means the ability to follow the movement of a foodstuff through specific stages of production, processing, and distribution;
traceable/traceability means the steps in the heritage of creating the Product including whatever processing, transformations, radiometric corrections, geo-corrections, reformatting, resampling or other operations which have been applied in its creation. Certain parameters associated with traceability are normally provided in metadata; other information may be in the form of global documentation. Some aspects are important from a legal perspective and others from a practical point of view such as the ability to reverse or un-do an operation if subsequent calibration data or coefficients become available that are more accurate.