Join our panel of experts to hear about the risks, challenges and opportunities for food processing companies when it comes to traceability across the supply chain. Regulatory and market changes are creating new challenges for food processors – our panel of experts offers their take on the most pressing issues and how to solve them.

1. Traceability in Food Processing:
Is Your Business at Risk?
November 12, 2013

2. • Introductions and Agenda for
today
• FSMA/Food Safety update
• Panel discussion questions
• Solution Demo
• Q&A

3. Presented by …
• Blytheco works with thousands of companies
nationwide to provide manufacturing systems
that help food processors decrease risks and
costs while improving efficiency and
profitability.

4. Introductions
• Alicia Anderson – Facilitator
▫ Marketing, Blytheco
• Lori Seal – Panel Moderator
▫ COO, Blytheco
• Dr. Roger Clemens - Panelist
▫ Past-President of the Institute of Food
Technologists, a Professor at USC, and Chief
Scientific Officer, Horn
• Mark Pinard - Panelist
▫ Senior Solution Engineer, Sage North America

5. Product Tracing in the Food Supply
Chain
Roger Clemens, DrPH
Horn, Chief Scientific Officer
IFT President (2011-12)
Adjunct Professor, USC School of Pharmacy

6. FSMA Implementation
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Prevention standards
Inspection and compliance
Imports
Federal/state integration
Fees, and
Reports and studies
http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/FSMA/ucm250338.htm
Michael Taylor, April 6, 2011
Michael R. Taylor,
deputy commissioner
for foods and
veterinary medicine at
FDA

7. FSMA Update
• Proposed Rule for Preventive Controls for Food for Animals,
November 4, 2013
▫ Establishes GMP for animal food
▫ Requires implementation of HACCP for all facilities (manufacturing,
processing, packing & packaging, and storage)
• Proposed Rules for Help Ensure the Safety of Imported Food, July
26, 2013
▫ Foreign Supplier Verification Programs
▫ Accreditation of Third-Party Auditors
• Proposed Rules for Produce Safety and Preventive Controls, Jan 3,
2013
▫ Focuses risk-based analysis of microbial contamination
▫ Guides small farms/businesses for compliance (grow, harvest, pack or
hold raw agricultural commodities, e.g., fruits, vegetables, mushrooms,
sprouts, herbs, tree nuts; not grains)
http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/FSMA/ucm359450.htm
Accessed November 9, 2013

8. Food Production Chain
• Contamination
in Production
• Contamination
in Processing
• Contamination
in Distribution
• Contamination
in Preparation
http://www.cdc.gov/outbreaknet/investigations/production_chain.html
Accessed November 9, 2013

9. Definition: Product Tracing
• Traceback is NOT Recall
▫ How do you find points of convergence when much is
unknown?
• A single company doesn’t have traceability – but is a
critical piece of the puzzle!
Traceback
Recall

10. Cost Benefit Evaluation
• Public health and social benefits
▫ For example – lives saved, illnesses prevented, gains in
productivity
Benefits
• FDA operational benefits
▫ responsiveness, reputation, resource allocation
• Industry benefits
▫ increased brand reputation, increased consumer
confidence, improved recall scope, improved supply chain
management
Costs
 FDA operational costs
• Analytical and Field FTE’s and associated costs; training
• New System Implementation (Implementation and
Maintenance)
• Compliance
 Industry implementation costs
• Software; Capital expenditures
• Change to current processes
• Compliance

11. IFT Traceability Center Pillars
Research
Protocols &
Standards
Global Food
Traceability
Center
Education &
Training
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Reduce duplication by industry and government
Ensure practical solutions that provide real benefit to stakeholders
Provide tangible facilities and applied services (research, marketing,
commercialization, education)
http://www.ift.org/gftc.aspx
July 2013
Technology Transfer

12. Panel Questions

13. Biggest Changes with New Regulations

14. Top Shortfalls Regarding Traceability

15. Top FSMA Compliance Challenges

16. Tools to Manage the Risks

17. Solution Presentation

18. Q&A
• Please type your question into the Questions
pane on the GoToMeeting dashboard

19. Next Steps
• Food Processors Information Kit
▫ www.blytheco.com/trace
▫ Whitepapers, Checklists, IFT Reports, Case
Studies

20. Join our Sage X3 Demo series
http://www.blytheco.com/erp-x3/events.asp

21. More questions?
• solutions@blytheco.com
• P. 800.425.9843, extension 2500