Traceability
Traceability is the ability to follow a product or plant material through documented stages of its history. Mango fruit records may connect an orchard block, harvest date, packing batch, and customer, while nursery records can connect a graft to its scion source and rootstock batch. Useful traceability requires labels and records that remain linked as material moves. It supports investigation and quality control but does not independently prove a cultivar claim or replace inspection for pests and disease.