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Are the Legal Threats from Traceability Worse Than You Thought?

Have you heard the news? Food traceability is here and it’s the law under Food Safety Modernization Act Section 204d (FSMA 204). When FSMA 204 becomes enforceable in less than 22 months, an unprecedented set of financial, reputational and legal threa...

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Are consumers calling for more food traceability?

Since the FSMA 204 food traceability law passed in January 2023, companies who make, manufacture, pack or hold foods on the Food Traceability List (FTL) have been warming to the idea that traceability is here and that compliance is unavoidable. Compa...

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What the FDA isn’t telling you about traceability for nut butters

Nut butters can be found in nearly every department inside the average supermarket either as a stand-alone consumer product, or as an ingredient in other foods. Additional traceability recordkeeping is required for “all types of tree nut and peanut b...

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3 Ways FSMA 204 Is Transforming the nut butter industry – A Case Study

The FSMA 204 deadline is closing in and with it comes a new, stricter set of recordkeeping requirements for companies that manufacture, process, pack, or hold nut among other products on FDA’s Food Traceability List (FTL). One chocolate butters compa...

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The critical need for enhanced food traceability in the wake of massive beef recall

Recent E.coli contaminations highlight the need for better preparedness in all parts of the food supply chain The USDA has reported that over 58,000 pounds of ground beef may be contaminated with E.coli and therefore are being recalled. This...

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What Produce Suppliers Need to Know About Food Traceability, and Why Labels Just Won’t Work

Food traceability is a critical component of the produce supply chain. Most often today, information about the quality, contents and origins of each shipment is captured on labels. However as traceability requirements in the produce industry grow und...

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Why Your QA/QC Team Can’t Do Traceability Alone

On November 15, 2022, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finalized FSMA Rule 204. If your organization deals with foods including cheeses, nut butters, fin fish, bivalves/mollusks, domesticated chicken eggs, certain vegetables and more, you need ...

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The CEO’s Checklist for the January 2026 FSMA 204 Compliance Deadline

As a leader, you know that the food industry constantly evolves. Right now, we’re in the midst of the most sweeping food supply chain collaboration project in history, thanks to the FDA’s update to Section 204 of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FS...

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SQF Global Panel Explores Next-Gen Food Safety Hot Buttons

Current and future impacts of AI, machine learning and other technology-enabled tools for the global food safety community were among the hot topics on the...

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Conquering the Achilles Heel of the Online Shopping Experience

Substitutions caused by out-of-stock (OOS) items are the Achilles heel of online grocery shopping and leads to shopper frustration,...

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