After Japan discovered its first case of mad-cow disease in September 2001, it too began promoting detailed production records. In 2003, the Japanese government allocated? D25 billion (approximately NT $ 7.5 billion) to subsidize the cost of developing a farm-to-fork traceability system, and set a target date of 2010 for its across-the-board implementation.
日本自 2001 年 9 月爆發第一例狂牛症後，也開始推動生產履歷，2003 年日本政府提撥 250 億日幣（約合台幣 75 億），作為補助導入生產履歷系統所需的費用，並預計在 2010 年完成所有食品的生產履歷。