Food Traceability & Recall Management System

A complete Excel workbook for managing identification, traceability, withdrawal, and recall operations in food facilities. It relies solely on formulas, dynamic tables, drop-down lists, and conditional formatting — with no VBA or macros. 

Contents

• The workbook consists of 23 interlinked worksheets
• Cover & User Guide: Facility details and a built-in operating guide.
• System Setup: Classification lists for products, customers, suppliers, risk levels, and units of measure.
• Identification Registers: Product and raw-material definitions.
• Traceability Records: Raw-material receiving, production batch register, raw-material-to-batch traceability matrix, inventory, and distribution.
• Recall System: Incident register, 5×5 risk-assessment matrix, recall decision matrix, and recall & withdrawal registers.
• Traceability Simulators: Backward simulator (from batch to raw materials and suppliers) and forward simulator (from material to batches and customers).
• Mock Recall Exercise: Automatically calculates recovery rate, traceability accuracy, recall efficiency, and response time.
• Non-Conformity & Corrective Action Report (CAR).
• Dashboard with KPI cards and charts.
• Final Report that is generated automatically and summarizes system results.
• Barcode Generator for products in both Code 39 and Code 128 formats.

Specifications

• Language: Fully in English.
• Worksheets: 23 sheets.
• Data: Includes realistic, interlinked sample data for demonstration.
• Traceability: Supports backward and forward tracing (One Step Back / One Step Forward).
• Protection: Formula cells are protected from editing; input cells remain open.
• Formatting: Consistent design ready for printing and PDF export, with empty cells hidden and headers frozen.
• Trace Time: Enables a full trace of any batch in under 4 hours.
• Standards Compliance

Designed to align with the requirements of: ISO 22000:2018 · HACCP (Codex Alimentarius) · FSSC 22000 v6 · BRCGS Food Safety · IFS Food · FDA FSMA 204 · GFSI.

Requirements

Microsoft Excel (with support for tables, drop-down lists, and conditional formatting).

To display barcodes visually: install the Libre Barcode 39 and Libre Barcode 128 fonts (free from Google Fonts).