Following the Bioterrorism Act of 2002, the Food and Drug Administration was mandated by the Department of Health and Human Services to monitor source information for all ingredients and mixes at food processing facilities throughout the U.S. so as to ensure that the food supply coming into the country was safe from contamination or adulteration of ingredients.
As a result, FDA tracking compliance as it pertains to food source information is now the law. Software has been developed, and is in full use to ensure that plants and food processing facilities meet FDA source information requirements.
Don’t Suffer Legal Responsibility for Food Contamination; Tracking Compliance Limits Contamination Responsibility to Original Source of Ingredients
However, that all food manufacturing facilities meet food ingredient source information requirements is not the only benefit of FDA tracking compliance software for businesses. It is true that the legal ramifications for a company supplying contaminated or adulterated food are indeed problematic for a business: not only does an offending company have to answer to the FDA, but their business and brand reputation immediately suffers as a result. In this regard, FDA tracking compliance software not only keeps a business legal with national laws, it also protects the company’s brand from tarnishing when a batch or shipment from their facility is contaminated through no fault of the company in question. As such, tracking compliance saves this company from its customers cancelling orders and seeking another ingredient or product source.
One such FDA tracking compliance system is PRIMS, or Production Recipe Ingredient Management Software. Through implementing PRIMS at a food processing or manufacturing facility, companies can realize significant production yield increases and ingredient loss decreases through the automation of factory processes that PRIMS affords on the plant floor.
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