Application of the industrial automation standards and methodologies for reliable and continuous European food traceability system

Recent traceability requirements create necessity of organization of the food production process in the completely new way. This way of production organization is typical rather for large industry, than for traditional way of work at the rural areas. This fact generates tensions as well as resistance of the farmers, especially farmers working in traditional way. This paper presents new ideas of industrial application of automation standards and methodologies for reliable, robust and user-friendly food traceability system. Due to the high level of automation and application of industrial IT solutions together with multimodal data transmission, presented traceability system can be implemented in traditional food production farms and operated intuitively by personnel without specialized training. As a result application of presented system will signifi-cantly reduce tensions and resistance connected with implementation of new technologies in tradi-tional food production farms.