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Abstract
EU-regulation (EG) 178/2002 and the EU hygiene package have fixed general principles and
requirements for the food law. Some of these principles and requirements are related to the issues
of traceability and quality assurance along the agro-food-chains and affect all participants
of the supply value chain. This paper focuses on the implementation of these requirements to
the livestock farmer and veterinarian segment of the supply value chain. Livestock farmers and
veterinarians are responsible for animal health, which is one of the key features of quality assurance.
Furthermore, both groups already document information related to animal health. Often,
the documentation is comprehensive and at times redundant, and is accomplished manually.
Currently, an IT-solution does not exist for the entire supply-value chain of livestock farming
and animal products in Germany. Only isolated IT-solutions exist. An integrated IT-solution for
farmers and veterinarians has not yet been developed. The development of an IT-system meeting
these requirements is the main objective of the BMBF-funded project IT Food Trace in collaboration
with IBM. In this paper, first results of an analysis of stakeholder acceptance of ITsolutions
will be presented (livestock farmers and veterinarians).