Fresh produce traceability app

Fresh Produce Traceability Apps for food service, fresh cut, wholesalers, and packers of fruit & veg

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1.  Why is traceability important in the fresh produce industry?
Food recalls have always been a risk for fresh produce packer, wholesale, and processors, affecting a number of different produce items. Media coverage on contaminated foods causing illness has diminished consumer confidence in food and the retailers where they purchased the recalled products.

2.  How can I increase customer confidence thru traceability? 
To increase consumer confidence and public safety, it’s necessary to have an effective traceability system in place, and one that can automatically manage your traceability requirements without additional effort from  users. 

3.  How can I label fruit cases with traceability data?
Full traceability is only a requirement on the outside of a case of fresh produce. But consumers don’t buy an entire case of produce; they purchase it individually as a bulk item. Once the case is emptied at the retailer’s shelves and bins, all further traceability is lost.  The  labeling system can add an additional traceability code on each price look up (PLU) label. The PLU label is added to all bulk produce items. By adding this additional traceability code, each produce item can be traced back to its origin. The labeling system can also be used to announce sales events or promotions reaching the consumers when they purchased.

4.  How can I define my traceability requirements?
Recalls, audits, mock audits, supplier traceability data capture, pallet and case labelling usually covers most technical requirements for fresh produce businesses. 

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Traceability apps in the fresh produce supply chain

1.  Fresh Produce Traceability is much more than applying a label to the packed fruit or vegetable. Producepak delivers strict fresh produce traceability guidelines for supply chain end to end food safety & transparency.

2.  Close gaps in the fresh produce traceability supply chain.
Ensuring that the traceability chain has no gaps in it is important to reduce the risk exposure of your business. If there is a breach in the traceability chain, then the whole traceability enforcement system has failed and becomes a pointless expense. Producepak ensures 100% accuracy of traceability throughout the entire life-cycle of fresh produce, from pre-planting, to post sales traceability guideline adherence. Producepak ensures your business is not unnecessarily exposed, while minimizing compliance costs.

3.  Traceability must start in the packhouse or warehouse.
Producepak Packhouse Management software provides a strong platform for accurate recording of fresh produce traceability records, via a variety of easy and logical methods. Risk exposure to the pack shed is greatly reduced by having resolution traceability guideline compliance, which in turn reduces financial exposure to the packhouse should a recall become necessary. Accurate fresh produce traceability reduces the quantity of fruit/vegetables in a recall, and therefore reduces the businesses financial exposure.

4.  High traceability helps to open new markets.
For fresh produce and food service providers, increased traceability results in improved customer confidence in product quality and repeat business.

5.  Support for common fresh produce traceability standards.
Best practice standards for fresh produce traceability such as BRC, GlobalGAP, ISO, HACCP, CanGAP, EuroGAP, (and many more) are supported by Producepak, making compliance and audits easy and less expensive.

6.  Automate your traceability 
The Producepak fresh produce traceability system constitutes thousands of processes & guidelines that are integrated throughout the entire system, guiding users to record correct fresh produce traceability details at the correct time.

Automatic Fresh Produce Traceability App 

1.  Challenges of fresh produce traceability.
Pack sheds and pack-houses are experiencing new levels of regulatory control in the pack shed and packhouse processes for fruit and vegetables. Contemporary industrialized fruit and vegetable packing has become increasingly regulated over the past decade. There are now literally hundreds of thousands of regulations world wide that relate to the Traceability and Food Safety of the production of fruit and vegetables for human consumption.

‍2.  Rapidly implement a fresh produce traceability solution
Producepak is a cloud based business management solution for fresh produce processing, packing, and wholesale can enforce most traceability requirements simply through its implementation.  Producepak Packhouse Traceability Software ensures that all fruit and vegetable (and other types of fresh produce such as salads, lettuce and loose leaf) are labeled and traced upon arrival at the Packhouse or Pack Shed.

3.  Bar-code level traceability.
Fruit and vegetables can be bar-coded upon delivery to the Packhouse (or labeled in the field if chosen). The bar-code will identify the fresh produce for its entire lifecycle ensuring strict adherence to traceability levels such as GlobalGAP, PTI – Produce Traceability Initiative, HACCP, ISO, BRC, FarmSafe, and more.

Fresh produce is scanned when sorted in the pack shed, this ensures Packhouse and Pack Shed managers know where all produce is at all times, and are able to view the history of the movement of fruit and vegetables to trace any potential contamination points that may occur during the pack shed or Packhouse processes.

4.  Traceability processes should be integrated throughout the entire business.
Packhouse Management’s “Traceability” module isn’t a stand alone module. Traceability is built into the core in every process, action, and document.  The app minimizes the data capture and entry costs associated with fresh produce traceability using various innovative techniques.

Fresh Produce Traceability app automates traceability records 

1.  What is the scope of fresh produce traceability?
■ Applies to fresh fruit and vegetables for human consumption.

■ Traceability practices from grower to retail store or food service operator (i.e. external traceability).

■ Applies to all levels of product and shipping containers, including pallets, cases and consumer items.

‍2.  Who should implement traceability?
Packhouse managers, purchasing managers, and food service factory managers should use a practical traceability app that is intended for those responsible for implementing traceability in their company’s operations and supply chain. For example, the Producepak app provides a guide for fresh produce growers, packers, exporters/importers, and distributors as well as their customers and suppliers. Individual organizations to implement fresh produce traceability.  
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3.  What else should I know about fresh produce traceability for fruit & vegetables?

Traceability Definitions
■ Traceability is the ability to trace the history, application or location of that which is under consideration. [ISO 9001: 2000]

■ External Traceability is the business processes that occur between trading partners and the information/data exchanged to execute traceability.

■ Internal Traceability is the proprietary data and business processes a company uses within its own span of operations to execute traceability.

4.  What is fresh produce traceability software? 
Fresh Produce Traceability Software provides an extremely high level of traceability management and transparency; all the way to the individual piece of fruit if chosen. Traceability labels can be applied at many levels throughout the packing and manufacturing/value add process.  The software usually includes features such as audit, recall, and mock recalls.