How do you keep batch traceability intact when goods are repacked?
If a supplier combines material from several batches into one shipment, what records would you want before accepting the paperwork?
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- I'd ask for a mapping from the original batches to the shipped units or lots. Repacking should not erase the connection between the physical goods and their evidence.
- Check that quantities reconcile. A beautifully formatted certificate doesn't explain how more material was shipped than the supporting batches contain.
- Get the warehouse or packer involved in the evidence design. They know what can actually be recorded during the repack, which matters more than an ideal spreadsheet.
- Preserve the original identifiers and add the new ones beside them. Renaming everything to your own lot code can make upstream records impossible to follow.
- I'd define what happens when a label is missing before the work starts. Otherwise the team may improvise a replacement identifier that nobody can verify.
- Have the compliance reviewer confirm that the mapping meets the specific regime's needs. Operational traceability is useful, but it doesn't automatically settle every legal requirement.
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