Emertech TraceBird's Nest Export Continuity
In December 2024, one disease alert halted an entire nation's bird's-nest exports for 28 days. Emertech Trace links every registered swiftlet premise to the exact batch and shipment — so a hold becomes surgical, not total, and export continuity survives the next incident.
Malaysia is the world's second-largest producer of edible bird's nest, and China is the market. But that market runs entirely on animal-health confidence: bird's nest is a poultry-adjacent product, and a Newcastle Disease or avian-influenza signal can suspend the corridor overnight — as it did in December 2024. The defence is not luck; it is evidence that can be produced, premise by premise, in minutes.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.— Benjamin Franklin
The protocol requires heating to a core temperature of ≥ 70 °C for ≥ 3.6 seconds — the validated kill step for avian-influenza and Newcastle Disease virus in every China-bound nest.
Source areas must monitor for highly pathogenic avian influenza and Newcastle Disease to WOAH standards, with no abnormalities — recorded against the premise, not just the paperwork.
Processing plants must be registered with China Customs under GACC/CNCA Decree 248; only product made after approval may ship, each traceable to a registered birdhouse.
A premise-to-export traceability system enabling rapid recall, plus a bilingual veterinary health certificate per shipment carrying registration numbers and heat-processing confirmation.
Each stage captures a defined set of records — and each field arrives from a specific place: a person's hands, a sensor, a government system, a device on the line, or the ledger itself. Below, every field is tagged with where its data comes from.
Confirms an eligible, monitored source — the birdhouse the entire chain traces back to.
Creates the first traceable product lot, bound to the premise that produced it.
Preserves source identity through aggregation and pre-cleaning — where identity most often breaks.
Maintains genealogy and demonstrates the prescribed processing control — the protocol's kill step.
Links disease and quality evidence to the exact batch, before anything is released.
Connects the official export approvals to the shipment being released.
Consolidates the export dossier and the buyer-facing proof scanned at destination.
A credible record is honest about its origin. Manual entry is fast to deploy but needs discipline; sensors, lab instruments and government feeds are harder to dispute. Emertech Trace labels each field so an auditor — or a DVS/GACC reviewer — knows exactly how firm the evidence is. Tap a source to highlight it across the chain above.
Tap any source to trace it through the seven stages ↑
These are the Malaysia-specific dropdowns a processor actually fills in. Every choice flows straight into the verification page an importer in China — or a customs officer — would scan on the carton.
Malaysia-specific field values — the controlled lists that keep data clean and protocol-aligned.
In December 2024 the whole corridor closed because no one could prove, fast enough, which product was unaffected. When a premise is flagged, Emertech Trace traces backward to the source and forward to every batch and shipment it touched — so you hold what you must and keep shipping what you can.
Malaysia already has a national EBN traceability system in MyWallet. Emertech Trace is not a rival ledger — it is the operational compliance and export-continuity layer that sits on top, speaking the same standards and feeding the same evidence base the market already trusts.
The national EBN blockchain, tracing birdhouse → cleaning → packaging → export. 14,307 registered premises; 2,143 myGAP-certified.
China's bird's-nest traceability management service platform, where imported nest is verified in-market.
Per-nest UHF anti-counterfeit tags with handheld capture, used across collection, processing, transport and sale.
DVS export permits flow through DagangNet; processing plants register with China Customs under Decree 248.
Sedia payung sebelum hujan.Malay proverb — "ready the umbrella before the rain": prepare the evidence before the incident
The value of a record is how fast it answers a question. From any shipment, premise or batch, the platform produces the documents a DVS or GACC review actually asks for.
Backward trace from a shipment to processing batch, harvest lot and registered swiftlet premise — and forward from a premise to every product it fed.
Premise disease-surveillance clearance (AI & Newcastle) and myGAP status, tied to each source and batch.
Core-temperature/hold-time proof (≥70°C/3.6s), nitrite, PCR and COA linked to the relevant batch.
Veterinary health certificate and export-permit register per shipment, plus incident, non-conformance and targeted-recall reports with affected quantities.
The RFID/QR is a retrieval key, not the proof. A tag can be moved; authenticity comes from the whole bundle of premise, heat, lab and certificate records behind it.
MyWallet remains the national backbone. Emertech Trace adds an operational compliance and export-continuity layer around it — it does not replace DVS's system or its authority.
Government integrations depend on access. Live links to MyWallet, myGAP, DagangNet e-Permit and GACC/CNCA lists are subject to technical access and permissions, confirmed during implementation.
The platform supports inspection — it does not replace it. DVS veterinary certification and GACC review remain the authority; Trace organises the evidence they rely on.