Featured Food Traceability Articles
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Using Real-Time Data To Exceed FSMA Guidelines
12/4/2014
New legislation is requiring food industry participants to shift from reacting to an emergency to a proactively preventing them. The key to ensuring that you meet regulations, maintain customer loyalty, and minimize damage from a foodborne illness or contamination event can depend upon how your company evaluates its data.
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Traceability — Canada's One Food Safety Weakness
12/4/2014
In an otherwise strong food safety and regulatory system, a new report from the Conference Board of Canada reveals traceability might be the Achilles’ heel of Canadian food safety.
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Food Recalls — Managing The “Do This, Not That” List
12/1/2014
In the food industry, sometimes the need for a recall is inevitable. In order to keep the public safe, the ability to locate a specific food product at any point in the supply chain is critical. With developing regulations, managers are required to act in a proactive manner, ensuring that practices are already in place in the event of a recall
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Global Food-Traceability Market Expected To Exceed $11 Billion By Next Year
11/20/2014
Increased regulatory demands have produced a need for expanded traceability technologies. This has been compounded by a rapidly-growing demand for foods sourced from global locales. The food-traceability market is currently growing at about 9 percent annually with no slowdown in sight.
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3 Ways To Mitigate Food Fraud Vulnerability
11/19/2014
Economically Motivated Adulteration is on the rise, so the U.S. Pharmacoeial Conventions is providing assessment tools to combat it with its new guidance document.
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General Mills' Supply-Chain Review Forces California Plant's Closure
11/18/2014
Under plans to cut costs by $40 million, the cereal maker will close the doors and sell its Lodi, CA facility
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Allergen-Based Recalls Put Two Food Makers In The Headlines
11/18/2014
Mislabeling events at two food making firms have put not only put consumers at risk, but have also put their brand reputation in jeopardy.
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Food Fraud: Truly Troubling Or Hyper Hysteria?
11/12/2014
Food fraud can be either economically motivated or intentionally malicious. Neither is comforting, but just exactly how at risk is the food-supply chain?
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FSIS Approves Chinese Chicken For Export To U.S.
11/10/2014
Not everyone is crowing about this development — the end of August saw four chicken-processing plants in China receive approval from FSIS to export cooked chicken products to the U.S.
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Fighting Foodborne Illnesses With Spray-On, DNA Barcodes
11/10/2014
A new company in California is currently developing a barcode product to be sprayed directly on produce in an effort to prevent and suppress foodborne-illness outbreaks