Informatics delivers traceability and data management for food safety monitoring

摘要

Food production is a highly regulated industry and for good reason: our system is based on trust. But while food regulations serve an important purpose, they do present significant challenges for the businesses that must comply with them. Most food producers are subject to a broad range of regulations and standards, from industry-wide ones, such as ISO 22000 (which sets out several communications and system management guidelines), the 2011 United States Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and the European Union Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002, to processspecific ones like the Egg Products Inspection Act (EPIA) or the Federal Meat Inspection Act (FMIA). Most of the industry-wide regulations require extensive application of the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) methodology, a systematic approach to preventing food safety hazards that has been in use for several decades.