This Food Safety system webinar will discuss reducing recall exposure using regular and lower cost traceability capabilities available with different food safety and drug ePedigree systems.
Why Should You Attend:
With the government moving to electronic food traceability requirements, the pressure will be on to comply at all levels in the food supply chain. In the four months it took for the FDA to track down the source of salmonella contamination, deaths piled up.
With the government at a complete loss and incapable of identifying and requiring an approach to food traceability, hundreds of approaches are currently under development by private enterprise. When the government finally specifies a standardized electronic approach, it will be up to an army of consultants and hardware and software vendors to help implement it throughout America's food supply systems. Nation-wide and international traceability requirements will move through the entire food supply chain and include farmers, distribution centers, processors, packers, shippers, retailers and restaurants. European food traceability requirements already exceed America's implementation movements. It is also likely that Asian countries will leapfrog America's capabilities simply because they have no legacy systems to eliminate. This webinar will explore current traceability capabilities, costs and trends.
Areas Covered in the Seminar:
- New technologies that drastically reduce costs of electronic traceability.
- Barcode and RFID electronic Systems.
- The future of cell phone technology.
- Simple Tagging (slap and ship) as a low risk alternative vs. RFID at the high cost end.
- On-line hosted systems vs "own your own".
- Item vs case and pallet levels of identification.GS1 and other high cost factors.
- ISO 22005 - International Standard for Food Traceability.
- Traceability at the Federal and international levels.
- What Microsoft, IBM and other large organizations are planning.
- The FDA and S510 or HB 2749 (The law).
- The future of cell phone technology.
Who Will Benefit:
This webinar is a must for food safety professionals from inspection, audit, laboratory and other disciplines wishing to explore futuristic food safety technologies and approaches.
- Governmental professionals concerned and involved with food traceability issues and systems should attend in order to learn more about pending technologies and approaches.
- Responders to recalls and terrorist food contamination
- Systems Consultants
- Food Safety Inspectors and Consultants
- Food Safety Compliance Body Personnel
- Anyone faced with having to choose and select a food traceability system - including farmers, food safety specialists, distribution centers, and retail and restaurant outlets.
Instructor Profile:
Dr. John Ryan, is the Administrator for the Hawaii State Department of Agriculture's Quality Assurance Division and a co-chair of the newly formed FDA/CDC food protection information technology team. He has spent over 25 years implementing high technology quality control systems for international corporations and is currently implementing Hawaii’s RFID traceability and State Food Safety Certification system.
Dr. Ryan specializes in closed-loop quality control systems employing real-time traceability, sensor measurement devices and process controls. He has recently implemented the country's first farm-distribution-retail RFID pilot system tracking produce through the food supply chain (Google "Hawaii Food Traceability" or visit http://www.HawaiiFoodSafetyCenter.org)
