关键词: 食品加工企业, 可追溯系统, 成本-收益

Abstract: Traceability system established by food firms is an effective tool to ensure food safety. In traceability systems construction, costs and benefits of traceability are first considered. In this paper, some theoretical analysis is made about factors and mechanisms that have effects on costs and benefits of traceability, and the structure of the systems' costs and benefits is also analyzed. All of the analysis is based on an information transferring model which operates like this there is a central organization which serves the food supply chain.

Key words: food firms, traceability systems, costs and benefits