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The food safety and quality represents one of the main concerns of governments, producers and consumers therefore were developed and implemented a set of national and international standards and regulation. One of the key concepts of those standards and regulation is about food traceability. This paper will present the main approaches regarding the concept of food traceability and will propose a conceptual model for an information system for monitoring traceability of the sunflower oil from farmers till wholesalers. Conclusions of the research are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Due to the increasingly concerns of customers related to food safety and quality, the producers, processors and distributors have started to cooperate to build and implement information systems that share data and information in order to fulfill customers' requirements. Those systems, called inter-organizational information system (IOIS), can determine the improvement of organizational performances by increasing the customers' trust in food acquired. This paper will propose architecture for an IOIS for fresh vegetables traceability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The business environment has been changed spectacular in the last three decades, especially the speed of appearance and disappearances of business opportunities has known a major increase. Therefore the companies were determined to develop new types of organizational structures which can include more standard enterprises and to develop information systems that can be used in this context. A very common type of organization which that fulfill this requirement is represented by virtual enterprise (VE) and the information system used by VE it is represented by inter-organizational information system. This paper presents a short overview regarding the concept of IOIS and VE. Conclusions and future directions of the research are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]