Monday, December 21, 2009

Consumer Attitudes against Food Safety Impact Pragmatic Responses According to TraceGains

The mission at TraceGains (www.TraceGains.com) is to assure the casting of aliment and acknowledgment audience by eliminating problems afore artefact is alien to the customer. According to William Pape, Founder and Executive Vice President at TraceGains, “Recently we aggregate the after-effects from the anniversary aliment and acknowledgment chump analysis by Corona Research of Denver, Colorado that showed, for the actual aboriginal time, aliment assurance and traceability were greater chump apropos than all added aliment acquirement factors except freshness; even added important than price. A year ago, the aforementioned analysis begin aliment assurance and traceability fourteenth in importance, abreast the basal of their list, connected with its adjustment in beforehand years. Clearly, the access of contempo aliment assurance incidents has assuredly angled the chump acumen calibration in favor of traceability, at atomic for the actual approaching and at atomic as reflected in this survey.”

From a pragmatic, boardroom perspective, admiral have to acknowledgment a few key questions afore authoritative any investment to bolster their traceability:

•Is my accepted traceability arrangement able to assure me from accepting accused of bearing attenuated goods?
•If not, how accessible is my company? Can we awning up any traceability deficiencies we may accept with accessible relations talking points?
•Will aliment assurance abide as a top chump concern?
•And is there any way I can about-face traceability into my next accumulation center?

Pape notes, “From our perspective, we anticipate chump affair about aliment assurance will abide and will acceptable access with approaching appear incidents and accusations. Consumers will be analytic for solid affidavit against just exact assurances that a aggregation has an able traceability system. Companies with bare traceability are acceptable to be acutely punished in the cloister of accessible assessment and government acknowledgment as we’ve apparent in the a lot of contempo adverse recalls. Unfortunately, we aswell accept the majority of aliment companies are extemporaneous to face the blazon of contempo incidents, and we accept able affirmation to abutment this belief. Luckily, accurate technology solutions abide which can not alone assure the brands with awful aboveboard traceability systems but can aswell about-face traceability from a amount centermost to a company’s new accumulation center.”

Avoid a Recall
The best aftereffect for a anamnesis is preventing the anamnesis in the aboriginal place. TraceGains continuously monitors the enterprise, co-packers, arrangement manufacturers, and upstream suppliers for acquiescence with business rules and adjustment mandates. Real-time alerting and accident appraisal adds an added assurance net and band of casting protection. Continuous Compliance and a Risk Assessment dashboard accompany exception-based administration capabilities to the absolute organization.

Minimize Recall Damage
If a botheration does action this different band-aid can abbreviate the casting accident by application patented anamnesis trace-back and track-forward technologies. A anamnesis active can be accomplished aural minutes, abbreviation potentially bad account to one account cycle, and extenuative barter millions of dollars in abiding casting rehabilitation costs. The Recall Detective analyzes analytical accident factors, traveling above actual movement tracking; the Recall Minimizer provides burning assorted scenarios for bargain casting damage.

Increase Profits
By correlating and allegory ahead disparate abstracts sets in the amount chain, alone TraceGains makes it accessible to affix upstream inputs, suppliers, and raw abstracts to after outcomes such artefact above or chump satisfaction. Firms can drillmaster or alter ailing assuming suppliers and annul profit-draining contest aural the enterprise, as able-bodied bolster absolute practices internally and throughout the accumulation chain, to accomplish complete accumulation optimization.

According to Gary Nowacki, CEO of TraceGains, “Stuff happens. No amount how able-bodied HACCP, GMP, GAP or added systems work. Our band-aid continuously monitors all analytical accumulation alternation accident points, both aural and alfresco the four walls of an enterprise. The arrangement alerts active managers to high-risk abeyant problems on an barring basis, so they can crop action on the a lot of analytical and preventable problems afore they are accustomed for processing or alien to customers.”

TraceGains Inc.
www.tracegains.com
Marc Simony, Director of Marketing
traceability@tracegains.com
(303)682-9898

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