TraceGains’ Perspective on HR2749 for Quality Digest

HR2749 has had ample industry endorsement and able industry administration from all stakeholder groups and is in synch with a alongside industry action (the Produce Traceability Initiative – PTI) admitting NAIS has few, able industry champions and no parallel, detailed, industry-driven program.

TraceGains, Inc. (www.tracegains.com) was founded in 1998 with a 100% focus on traceability. The aggregation has a patented accumulation arrangement —14 patents accepted and growing —and aswell is an Issuer of United States Department of Agriculture Process Verification Program (PVP) Label.

According to TraceGains’ architect Will Pape in the accepted affair of Quality Digest, “Support for changes to the way the FDA regulates its aliment across has been able because the FDA-regulated industries accept not alone frequently been stung by an aboveboard amaranthine cord of high-profile recalls, but the industry stakeholders for these FDA-regulated bolt (fruits, vegetables, and bogus foods) throughout all assembly segments from the aboriginal mile to the retailers assume to admit that the cachet quo just doesn’t plan anymore. They feel something needs to be done, and, in general, assume to be abetment the regulations put advanced in HR2749. As we discussed endure month, industries afflicted by NAIS, on the added hand, do not accept this ample accord about the accident their industries face, nor a able admiration to change, and they don’t accept bright industry administration on this topic.”

Other differentiators include:

• HR2749 is a Congressional action action change, and NAIS is generated by USDA staffers after detailed, legitimizing Congressional legislation.

• HR2749 puts a lot of of the albatross for action on the after architect and banker admitting NAIS places a lot of of the action on the first-mile and upstream livestock ambassador who has been actual articulate in abnegation the NAIS accident message.

• HR2749 includes clear, abundant exemptions for the actual aboriginal first-mile ambassador who sells anon to the chump through roadside stands, farmer’s markets, and CSA’s so that these baby growers won’t feel they’re accepting pushed out of business while NAIS is not so bright that these baby producers will be impacted.

Now that HR2749 has gone to the Senate for consideration, the Senate can either use this bill as its starting point, use a alongside Senate bill (S510 sponsored by Senator Durbin, 5 Republican Senators and 5 Democratic Senators) as their starting spot, use one of the added abundant aliment assurance bills awaiting in the Senate as the stalking horse to move forward, or they can do annihilation and let the HR2749 bill die in the 111th Congress. Of these options, application the S510 bill seems to us the likeliest as there are almost few above differences amid that bill and HR2749, and the administering absolutely has gone on almanac that they would do something to change the way the FDA regulates food.

So, if HR2749 and S510 appear to be the basal affair to be advised aboriginal by the Senate and again by a collective committee, let’s attending at the basal technology implications. The account actuality is that from a technology point of view, abounding of the proposed changes are in band with beforehand behavior but they are accounting added crisply and clearly. However, a few of the proposed changes are both ample and across-the-board departures from antecedent action and there are some austere technology implications.

The complete affection article appears in Quality Digest and can be apprehend at http://www.qualitydigest.com/inside/fda-compliance-article/food-safety-policies-add-confusion.html.

TraceGains Inc.
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Marc Simony, Director of Marketing
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