Octopus is not one interchangeable commodity. Comparable records preserve the scientific species, accepted commercial designation, wild-caught or farmed status, FAO catch area or aquaculture country, fishing gear or production method, vessel or farm and harvest date; then separate live, whole, gutted, cleaned, tentacles, chilled, frozen, thawed, cooked, dried and prepared products. Atlas retains size and count basis, glaze and net weight, treatment, cold-chain history, sensory and microbiological evidence, contaminants, package and lot, certification scope, origin, destination, Incoterm, delivery window and evidence vintage before comparing offers.
Codex CXC 52-2003 applies its cephalopod-processing section to fresh and processed octopuses in Octopus and Eledone intended for human consumption. Its technical guidance calls for fresh cephalopods to be cooled rapidly toward melting-ice temperature, chilled products to be stored at no more than 4 degrees Celsius, modified-atmosphere products at no more than 3 degrees Celsius and frozen products at no more than minus 18 degrees Celsius. EU Regulation 1379/2013 separately requires, for products within its scope, the commercial and scientific species names, production method, catch or farming area, fishing-gear category and defrosted status. Consolidated EU Regulation 2023/915 sets cephalopod maximums of 1.0 milligram per kilogram for cadmium and 0.30 milligram per kilogram for mercury, both applying to the animal without viscera. These are named process, information and contaminant references, not test results for an offered lot, proof of sustainability, current availability or a live price.
Octopus is a market group, not a single species. Codex's cephalopod guidance covers octopuses in Octopus and Eledone, while FAO's ASFIS reference system exists to keep aquatic species identifiers consistent for fishery statistics. Atlas records the scientific name and source authority, accepted commercial designation and any FAO code rather than transferring a size, origin, yield or sustainability statement from one species to another.
EU Regulation 1379/2013 illustrates the information needed to distinguish fishery and aquaculture products: commercial and scientific names, whether caught, caught in freshwater or farmed, catch or farming area, fishing-gear category and whether the product was defrosted. Atlas retains those fields with vessel or farm, flag where evidenced, landing or harvest date and chain-of-custody records. A country of processing is not silently treated as catch origin.
Live, fresh whole, eviscerated, cleaned, skinned, tentacles-only, chilled, block-frozen, individually quick frozen, thawed, cooked, dried, canned and seasoned products differ in edible portion, yield, glaze, net weight, defects, packaging, shelf life and tariff treatment. Atlas records presentation, processing and weight basis before comparing price, size or recovery. A prepared-product observation cannot be converted into raw whole-octopus value without a documented mass balance.
Codex advises rapid cooling of fresh cephalopods toward melting-ice temperature, chilled storage at 4 degrees Celsius or below, modified-atmosphere storage at 3 degrees Celsius or below and frozen storage at minus 18 degrees Celsius or below. Those are process guides, not proof that a shipment remained compliant. Atlas requires time-and-temperature records, freezing method and date, core-temperature evidence where applicable, glaze, thaw history, package and lot.
The consolidated EU contaminant regulation sets a 1.0-milligram-per-kilogram cadmium maximum and a 0.30-milligram-per-kilogram mercury maximum for cephalopods, both on wet weight and for the animal without viscera. Dried, diluted, processed and compound products require the regulation's conversion provisions. Atlas keeps edible scope, preparation, sampling plan, laboratory, method, result, uncertainty and test date attached to the lot rather than treating a regulatory ceiling as a result.
Species, FAO area, gear, vessel and production method are inputs to diligence, not an automatic sustainability conclusion. Stock status, fishery or farm assessment, management jurisdiction, certification unit, chain of custody, certificate status and date must match the supplied lot. Atlas does not infer certified, responsible, low-impact or legal harvest from a country name, marketplace label or generic octopus category.
Species identity, cold-chain criteria, consumer-information fields and contaminant ceilings do not establish current availability, lot conformity, transaction value or delivered cost. A physical comparison still needs permitted current observations for the exact species, source method and area, product form, size and count basis, treatment, glaze and net weight, sensory and laboratory evidence, certification scope, origin, package and lot, quantity, currency, Incoterm, destination, delivery window, freight and information vintage. Atlas withholds a physical estimate when those observations or usage rights are missing.
No. Octopus is a broad market name. Scientific species, accepted commercial designation and source authority must be recorded before transferring size, origin, yield, contaminant or sustainability evidence.
No. Edible portion, evisceration, cleaning, skinning, yield, glaze, net weight, size basis and processing differ. Presentation and weight basis must be explicit.
Not necessarily. Catch area, vessel or farm and production method are separate from the country where the product was processed or packed. Chain-of-custody evidence is needed.
No. A regulatory maximum is not a test result. Compliance needs the correct edible scope, representative sampling, laboratory method, result, uncertainty, lot identity and test date.
Scientific species and commercial designation, wild or farmed method, FAO catch area or farming country, vessel or farm, gear, harvest and landing dates, live, whole, gutted, cleaned, tentacles, chilled, frozen, thawed, cooked or prepared form, size and count basis, glaze and net weight, treatment, cold-chain records, sensory, microbiological and contaminant evidence, certification scope, origin, packing and lot, quantity, currency, Incoterm, destination, delivery window and evidence date.
Figures retain their source, period and review date. Corroboration is not promoted to primary evidence.