
A NON SEQUENTIAL PROCESS VERIFICATION
in order to trace back sources of contamination and for verification of the status and quality, weight etc. The ability to trace the processing history may be used e.g. The information is used to trace the processing history of a piece of meat, including its origination.

WO0191565 discloses a process and an application for handling information in relation to meat being conveyed through a number of processing stations. The sequential nature of the food processing makes it easy to keep track of this information until the final product goes through a packing process. Moreover, after the slaughtering of the livestock each piece of the animal can further be tracked and catalogued to produce traceable information regarding the origin of the food item as well as the process it has gone through during the processing in the processing plant. The ability to catalog food products through processing, such as mother origin of livestock, which slaughterhouse was used and the name of the worker can also help with maintaining good quality assurance and minimize the damage in case of any contamination. This is of great importance when food contamination is discovered somewhere in the supply chain. Tracing food items through processing for recordkeeping is known in the art. The information is furthermore useful for the control and management of the food processing plant. The information is used to trace the processing history of food items, including its origination and packing. The present invention relates to a method and a system for handling information in relation to items, such as food items, being conveyed through non-synchronized, non-sequential, non-linear processing.
