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New system of traceability in lettuce Medina network
27/09/2010
September 27, 2010
Producers and Packers of the quality mark lettuce Medina, in Burgos, have an innovative system of traceability on Internet, in real time, via the Internet allowing the connection between the operators and technicians of the brand.
According to Ignacio Velasco, technical brand, thanks to
This system producers can facilitate the control of the
conditions of cultivation and conservation, and to ensure to the
consumer quality of this horticultural product from the region of the
Merindades, to the North of Burgos.
The renewed web will allow consumer access to information on the plots in which has been cultivated lettuce in the market, by introducing the code of traceability which is contained in the corresponding label. The project is funded by the Agrarian technological Institute of Castilla and Leon (Itacyl) and represents 18,000 euros of investment.
"Velasco noted, with regard to the current campaign, which carried out analytical results" satisfactory and the tasting of samples taken so far has had a "remarkable global acceptance".
These parameters confirm the quality of the product obtained, waiting for the results of the certification audit of the lettuce of Medina as a certified product.
It's a first step to request the inclusion in the umbrella of Earth flavor, to use promotion mechanisms set up by the Junta de Castilla y León. With this objective, from 20 to 22 October next, present the brand in Madrid, within their own space under the aegis of the Board in the sectoral trade fair Fruit Attraction.
