Japan: food businesses with traceability systems

According to a survey conducted among food businesses in Japan in 2022, approximately 35 percent of responding businesses stated that they saved all records of receipts and shipments for incoming raw material, purchased goods and ingredients, as well as shipments of their products. Around 46 percent of responding businesses answered that no records of receipts and shipments are being saved. The process of tracing receipts and shipments was most adopted among food manufacturers and wholesalers.

Share of food businesses keeping record of receipts and shipments in Japan as of November 2022

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Release date

March 2023

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Region

Japan

Survey time period

October to November, 2022

Number of respondents

2,743 respondents

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

Original question:“Does your company preserve records of receipts and shipments of goods?”

Sample size by industry:
Food manufacturing: n=261
Food wholesale: n=275
Food retail: n=1,060
Food service: n=1,147

The records of receipts include records such as the “receipt date,” “recipient,” “item name,” and “quantity” of incoming raw materials or purchased goods and ingredients. The records of shipments include records such as the “shipment date,” “destination,” “item name,” and “quantity” of products.

The methods of preservation include entry into “ledgers” or other accounting books, electronic data on computers, as well as documents provided by suppliers or recipients such as “delivery slips” and “invoices,” and documents issued by transportation companies such as “shipping notes.”

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