Article 5Traceability requirements for products for food and feed produced from GMOs
1.
When placing products produced from GMOs on the market, operators shall ensure that the following information is transmitted in writing to the operator receiving the product:
(a)
an indication of each of the food ingredients which is produced from GMOs;
(b)
an indication of each of the feed materials or additives which is produced from GMOs;
(c)
in the case of products for which no list of ingredients exists, an indication that the product is produced from GMOs.
2.
Without prejudice to Article 6, operators shall have in place systems and standardised procedures to allow the holding of the information specified in paragraph 1 and the identification, for a period of five years from each transaction, of the operator by whom and to whom the products referred to in paragraph 1 have been made available.
3.
4.
Paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 shall not apply to traces of GMOs in products for food and feed produced from GMOs in a proportion no higher than the thresholds established for those GMOs in accordance with Articles 12 F3or 24 of Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003, provided that these traces of GMOs are adventitious or technically unavoidable.