---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 C.F.R. § 1.1345"
title: "21"
number: "1.1345"
heading: "What records must I keep when I receive a food on the Food Traceability List?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/21/1.1345"
---

# §1.1345. What records must I keep when I receive a food on the Food Traceability List?

- (a) Except as specified in paragraphs [(b)](#b) and [(c)](#c) of this section, for each traceability lot of a food on the Food Traceability List you receive, 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 previous source (other than a transporter) for the food;
  - (5) The location description for where the food was received;
  - (6) The date you received 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) For each traceability lot of a food on the Food Traceability List you receive from a person to whom this subpart does not apply, you must maintain records containing the following information and linking this information to the traceability lot:
  - (1) The traceability lot code for the food, which you must assign if one has not already been assigned (except that this paragraph does not apply if you are a retail food establishment or restaurant);
  - (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 previous source (other than a transporter) for the food;
  - (5) The location description for where the food was received (i.e., the traceability lot code source), and (if applicable) the traceability lot code source reference;
  - (6) The date you received the food; and
  - (7) **The reference document type and reference document number.**
- (c) This section does not apply to receipt 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) or to the receipt of a food by the first land-based receiver (if the food is 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.