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Tracking Initiative Aims to Improve Beef Supply Chain
IBM and Golden State Foods have partnered to provide a new level of transparency and trust to the beef supply chain. Their program helps food companies—retailers, suppliers, growers, and food industry...
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Enhancing Food Safety by Cloud Computing from the Plant Floor
(Editor’s Note: This is an online-only article attributed to the April/May 2019 issue.) Food safety is one industry that stands to gain significantly from cloud computing and storage, mainly because...
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How License Plates Can Be Used To Meet The Food Traceability Requirement
Traceability requirements are costly. The financial risks and costs associated with food safety are increasing due to trade wars and retaliatory uncertainty. The stakes are rising for food suppliers in...
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Using Software to Make Sure Food Suppliers Are FDA Compliant
According to a report by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, the total number of food recalls in the U.S. increased by 10 percent between 2013 and 2018. In the last year alone, the USDA Food...
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A Look At the New Technologies in Traceability
Keeping food safe by improving traceability is high on the agenda of government and industry groups for 2020. The reasons why likely come as no surprise: It took health officials six weeks to trace the...
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ELD Mandate: What to Know about Moving to ELD-Compliant Devices
The two-year grace period allowing automatic on-board recording devices (AOBRDs) in place of electronic logging device (ELD)-compliant devices for electronically tracking hours of service in commercial...
View ArticleFDA Proposes New Rules on Food Traceability
FDA has proposed a new rule that lays the foundation for end-to-end food traceability across the food industry as part of the New Era of Smarter Food Safety initiative. While limited to certain foods,...
View ArticleFDA Discusses First 100 Days of Its “New Era of Smarter Food Safety”
Frank Yiannas, FDA’s deputy commissioner for food policy and response, says that the first 100 days since the FDA released its blueprint for the “New Era of Smarter Food Safety” has been a success. In...
View ArticleLeafy Green Traceability Pilot Programs Show Value in Sharing More Product...
A group of food industry organizations has released a report that outlines four months of leafy green traceability pilot programs with supply chain partners, including growers, distributors, and...
View ArticlePotential Tools for a More Digital, Traceable Food System
Each year, foodborne illnesses sicken 48 million Americans (approximately 17% of people in the United States) and lead to 128,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths, according to the CDC. “Although...
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