As a food manufacturing facility, food tracing is of the utmost importance. It would not be accurate or just if your facility was held responsible for the contamination of a food product or ingredient that was created or included at another food manufacturing facility. As such, food tracing capabilities at your company translate to ensuring that your company is not held responsible for another company’s actions.
Title III of the Bioterrorism Act of 2002 dictates that companies must keep food tracing information regarding where their ingredients came from, where those ingredients are currently in their supply chain or warehouse, and where those ingredients are going. This ensures that if an ingredient or product is contaminated or “adulteration” has occurred, companies can then supply this food tracing information to the FDA, or employ it in a recall of a given ingredient or product.
Don’t Get Caught as the Company Responsible for Contamination if Your Company can Prove Through Food Tracing That Your Company is Not Responsible
In as much as food contamination is a public health concern, it is equally a financial concern for a food processing or manufacturing company. Ingredient loss, down time, and recalls can all be the results of food or ingredient contamination, and this will hurt your company’s bottom line.
Through food tracing automated software like Formula and Batch Control, and Lot Tracking Software, or Product Ingredient Management Software, quality control personnel can accurately track where ingredients came from and who is ultimately responsible for those ingredients.
Other benefits of food tracing software like Formula and Batch Control, and Lot Tracking , include increased production yields and lower ingredient loss. These benefits will dramatically increase a company’s bottom line.
As the industry leaders in food, baking, and beverage quality assurance and production control, Matrix Controls will assess and provide food tracing and quality assurance controls for your facility. Please visit www.matrixcontrols.net . You can also reach them at 800-722-6839 or email sales@matrixcontrols.net.