Advancing Food Safety with Technology and Traceability

There are three critical components of standards-based traceability: identifying products, capturing information about them, and sharing them with external trading partners.

Today, consumers are accustomed to having up-to-the minute information available at their fingertips. Not only do we investigate everything prior to purchasing, we track everything digitally so we know exactly where it is and when it will arrive. We know a new pair of faux-leather shoes manufactured under environmentally friendly and ethical circumstances is going to arrive just in time for an important event, for example.

These modern conveniences have become commonplace in a relatively short amount of time—so what’s holding our food supply chain back from similar progress? […]

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