The United States Explores Food Traceability Options

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The United States Explores Food Traceability Options

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Back in April, the acting commission of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the deputy commission announced plans to develop a “Blueprint for a New Era of Smarter Food Safety.” The FDA has just closed the period for the public to comment on its proposal, and it will unveil its plans during the coming year.
The FDA wants to move away from the manual, paper-based system now used to track food from the farm to the customer’s plate and replace it with new technologies that can automate the process.
The FDA plans to explore opportunities and specific actions to evaluate new technologies and upgrade its abilities to rapidly track and trace food through the supply chain.
The plan is to align food traceability efforts with other track-and-trace efforts, such as pilot programs focused on tracking the movements of medicines throughout the supply chain, as part of the Drug Supply Chain Security Act.
AIM NA’s Food Safety Committee has submitted thoughtful and well-reasoned comments to the FDA.
The AIM comments, for example, state: “The federal government should adopt standards to set the baseline content–or data points–needed to facilitate a food supply chain that is both visible and actionable.
These standards should require such baseline content to be physically tied to each item entering the food supply chain in a manner that can be digitally captured.
By establishing universal baseline requirements, each supply chain participant should be able to collect and share the same information (e.g. unique identifier, lot/batch, etc.) regardless of the technology or platform used.”
I agree with AIM that the FDA should not push a technology on the food industry.
By establishing a set of data standards that need to be captured and tied to specific items, the FDA could allow companies to decide the most cost-effective technologies

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