---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 C.F.R. § 1.1340"
title: "21"
number: "1.1340"
heading: "What records must I keep and provide when I ship a food on the Food Traceability List?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/21/1.1340"
---

# §1.1340. What records must I keep and provide when I ship a food on the Food Traceability List?

- (a) For each traceability lot of a food on the Food Traceability List you ship, you must maintain records containing the following information and linking this information to the traceability lot:
  - (1) The traceability lot code for the food;
  - (2) The quantity and unit of measure of the food (e.g., 6 cases, 25 reusable plastic containers, 100 tanks, 200 pounds);
  - (3) The product description for the food;
  - (4) The location description for the immediate subsequent recipient (other than a transporter) of the food;
  - (5) The location description for the location from which you shipped the food;
  - (6) The date you shipped the food;
  - (7) The location description for the traceability lot code source, or the traceability lot code source reference; and
  - (8) **The reference document type and reference document number.**
- (b) You must provide (in electronic, paper, or other written form) the information in [paragraphs (a)(1) through (7)](#a-1..a-7) of this section to the immediate subsequent recipient (other than a transporter) of each traceability lot that you ship.
- (c) This section does not apply to the shipment of a food that occurs before the food is initially packed (if the food is a raw agricultural commodity not obtained from a fishing vessel).

## Notes

### Source

Source: 87 FR 71077, Nov. 21, 2022, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 1333, 1453, 1454, 1455, 4402; 19 U.S.C. 1490, 1491; 21 U.S.C. 321, 331, 332, 333, 334, 335a, 342, 343, 350c, 350d, 350j, 352, 355, 360b, 360ccc, 360ccc-1, 360ccc-2, 362, 371, 374, 381, 382, 384a, 387, 387a, 387c, 393, and 2223; 42 U.S.C. 216, 241, 243, 262, 264, 271.

### Source

Source: 42 FR 15553, Mar. 22, 1977, unless otherwise noted.