Featured Food Traceability Articles
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Foster Farms Recalls More Than A Million Pounds Of Chicken
7/7/2014
On July 3 Foster Farms issued a voluntary recall for raw chicken parts produced in March. The company has been under fire since March of 2013 for not issuing any recalls of contaminated products.
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10 Steps To Improve Traceability In The Food Supply Chain
7/2/2014
Recent crises in the food supply chain with multiple recalls and consumer fear bring additional focus on a critical issue. This, compounded with recent regulatory action, adds just that much impetus on food industry needs to beef up traceability processes.
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Safety Of Spices Improves With New Technologies
6/25/2014
Better manufacturing technologies, accompanied by more focus on each phase of production, are boosting spice safety throughout the global supply chain.
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Improving Food Safety By Harnessing Big Data
6/25/2014
Big data is everywhere. The need for big data has become an issue in every industry, including the food supply chain. Utilizing lessons learned in other industries, food suppliers can use big data to solve an urgent problem; the increasing concerns over food safety.
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Natural Food Labels Entice Shoppers, But Are Other Factors More Significant?
6/23/2014
Labeling foods as natural has become a topic of much debate, but as consumers become more aware of what the label actually does or does not imply, other factors may become more influential in purchasing decisions.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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