GB/T 39017-2020Consumer product traceability—General requirements for traceability system (English PDF)

1 Scope

This Standard specifies the principles, requirements, procedures, composition elements and implementation of the consumer product traceability system.

This Standard is applicable to the design and implementation of the traceability system throughout the entire process and any stage of the supply chain in the consumer goods sector.

2 Normative References

The following documents are essential to the application of this document. For the dated documents, only the versions with the dates indicated are applicable to this document; for the undated documents, only the latest version (including all the amendments) is applicable to this document.

GB/T 22760 Consumer Product Safety - General Principles for Risk Assessment

GB/T 36061 General Specification for Traceability of E-Commerce Transaction Products

GB/T 36431 Classification and Code of Consumer Products

GB/T 39011 Consumer Product Safety - General Principles for Hazard Identification

3 Terms and Definitions

For the purpose of this Document, the following terms and definitions apply.

4 Principle

6 Process

6.2.2 The design, production and processing of consumer products shall focus on the hazards that affect the quality or safety of consumer product, see GB/T 39011.

6.2.3 The logistics and warehousing service provider shall determine the key records that need to be recorded in the traceability process, including but not limited to raw materials (parts, consumer goods), warehousing, sorting and picking, inspection, and delivery; and check the consumer products traceability record information on the previous level delivery and the next level acceptance.

6.2.4 Sales service provider shall make data records of buyers, products, transaction information, logistics information, etc., so as to determine the flow of consumer products. See GB/T 36061 for the traceability requirements of e-commerce transaction products.

6.2.5 Consumers should pay attention to important content that affects the quality or safety of consumer products during the use process; record and retain key information when consumer quality safety incidents occur to prepare for the traceability management of consumer products.

7 Composition Elements

7.1 The system and platform of the consumer product traceability system may be composed of a traceability system, a traceability service platform and a traceability management platform.

7.2 The consumer product traceability system may include the traceability system for children's products; the traceability system for household appliances and electrical accessories; the traceability system for electronic and information technology products; the traceability system for transportation appliances and related products; the traceability system for furniture and building decoration materials; the traceability system for clothing, footwear and home textiles; the traceability system for daily miscellaneous goods; the traceability system for cultural, educational and sporting goods; the traceability system for daily chemical products and sanitary goods, etc. The system may include several links such as product's design, production, packaging, storage and transportation, use, and recycling, etc. See GB/T 36431 for classification of consumer products.

7.3 Traceability service platforms may include government service platforms, industry and enterprise service platforms, public service platforms, etc.

7.4 Traceability management platform may include a national-level traceability management platform, a provincial-level traceability management platform, a […]