West Indies
Research Article
Product Traceability in the Age of the Food Safety Modernization Act
Author(s): Delano A Chambers and Paul Gyles*
In the age of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), if hazard analysis identifies a hazard requiring a preventive control, the facility must have a written recall plan describing the procedures to perform a recall of the product. At the heart of this prerequisite lies the ability to perform product trace one up to customers one back to suppliers (one up/one back) which were lacking, resulted in the mountainous paper trail with convoluted records, and long mock recall sessions. With limited product trace, the scope of potential product implicated in mock recall sessions could cripple brand and business in real recall sessions. Of such, a real-time product trace approach was sought using purchase order numbers. While unique to each company, purchase order numbers once issued has quantity, description, date, and time tied to each issued number, a good candidate for such task for bulk.. View more»