Quick product recall and identification of all sourced components is vital to ensure fast product recall and help limit damage to your reputation. The ability to trace and follow a food, feed, food producing animal or substance through all stages of production and distribution is vital for consumer’s safety. The Food Safety regulation EU178/2002 and the US Bioterrorism Act require all businesses operating in the food supply chains to implement traceability on one-up/one-down principle.

What you must do
The company shall have a system with the ability to trace materials from raw material to source to the finished product.Keep records of components used from all suppliers
Keep records of which companies you have supplied
Link records to test results
In case of an emergency, the government must be informed
Label all semi-finished and finished products appropriately to ensure traceability
Work within a preventative, integrated quality management system
Let us help
METTLER TOLEDO offers various rugged, easy to operate solutions:
PC based recipe weighing solutions providing seamless documentation of what recipe was weighed when, where, how and with which raw materials
Stand-alone scales as identification points with barcode scanners and printers
Fully integrated solutions with scales, touchscreen terminals, scanners and printers from goods-in to commissioning/shipment
Data integration into your existing goods management software (e.g. SAP, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, ...)