Featured Food Traceability Articles

  1. Bait And Switch — Fighting Seafood Fraud With Traceability 6/19/2014

    Even when compared to other “fresh” foods, the seafood industry has a significant problem with the lack of traceability through the food chain.  From illegal fishing to outright switching of one type of fish for another, poor recordkeeping and a lack of standard requirements opens the door for seafood fraud

  2. Walmart Ups Food Safety Spending In China 6/19/2014

    In order to decrease food safety issues and gain consumer confidence in the region, Walmart is tripling its planned investment in China through 2015.

  3. Transparency In The Food-Supply Chain — Imperative For Satisfaction And Safety 6/16/2014

    The need for assurance that food products are being sourced from sustainable operations puts even more impetus on the need for traceability of fresh products to ensure customer satisfaction and loyalty.

  4. Traceability Knowledge Gets Beefed Up With Online Training 6/12/2014

    Despite FDA silence, some private-sector organizations are taking supply-chain management education initiatives into their own hands.

  5. FDA Launches openFDA, Paving The Road To Innovation For Food Producers 6/4/2014

    The initiative will give various users the opportunity to work with large datasets to build tools, applications, and methods to signal safety information, derive insights, and get information where it needs to go

  6. Small Vendors Score Big in Supply Chain Software Market 6/3/2014

    As the global supply chain for food and other industries continues to grow, there is an ever-present need for software development.  Despite continuing budget concerns, IT investments remain a top priority.

  7. Hershey And Mars Lead The CocoaAction Initiative 6/2/2014

    Major players in the chocolate industry are looking to advance sustainability in the West African cocoa sector.

  8. Supply Chain Schools — Training A New Generation 5/30/2014

    As Baby Boomers will soon begin exiting the workforce, food and beverage manufacturers’ need for a new generation of supply chain managers is bigger than ever.

  9. The FDA And New Zealand's MPI Enter Into Food Safety Agreement 5/30/2014

    New Zealand is replacing its 1981 Food Act with the final version unanimously passed by Parliament last Tuesday evening.

  10. The Salmonella Outbreak That Keeps On Giving 5/30/2014

    More than a year after the first cluster of cases was discovered and traced back to Foster Farms chicken products, the CDC confirms the number of associated cases continues to rise.