Plenty in Store for Growers With New Food Traceability Rule

Learn how the FDA rule would include specialty crops.

Following a pandemic-related delay, the FDA implements its blueprint for smarter traceability.

With new Food Safety Modernization Act requirements on the horizon, it’s important to review traceability procedures and upgrade if necessary.

Despite their farms being vastly different, these two GenNext Growers require quickness to compete, which means staying abreast of agricultural technology.

This spring’s romaine lettuce outbreak illustrates questions that still must be addressed in the quest for a safe food system.

A Meister Media Worldwide survey found that while precision agriculture adoption in specialty crops may lag that of row crops, interest in the technology does not.

Some see the shared, cloud-based technology as the answer to rapid, real-time traceability.

Gathering, analysis, and application still seems to be the best basic definition of precision agriculture.

The goals of the acquisition ato provide more benefits to producers, add value to distribution centers, and provide a tool for tracking products in the food industry.

ERP technology from Linkfresh is Produce Traceability Initiative compliant, and helps growers streamline their traceability plan from field to fork.

The software, available from Schoneman Inc., provides growers with the tools they need to remain PTI compliant.

My relatives are asking questions about the safety of your produce. Help me make sure I have a great story to tell.

With the mounting food safety requirements and increasingly stricter standards from retailers, traceability is not an option for growers wanting to stay competitive.

Three Florida producers weigh in on what they are doing to meet the changing dynamics of demand.

Consumer incentive initiative supports Florida blueberry and California strawberry deal.

After a series of devastating foodborne illness outbreaks in produce crops, the industry took upon itself a series […]

At a time when accurate record keeping is more important than ever, both for food safety and cost […]

With the Produce Traceability Initiative (PTI) well underway, the rush to comply with case-level tracking industry-wide by 2012 […]