EmailYou are the person responsible for food safety and regulatory compliance at your small family owned food company, and your firm makes cookies. Really good cookies. Consumers love your product, the food stores that distribute your cookies like your sales reps, the company owner is happy with your work, and you are looking forward to a little vacation with your family. It’s Friday afternoon before a long weekend, and life is good.
Then you get the phone call. A company that supplies you flour was just found to be in violation of cleanliness regulations, and their product is being recalled. Fortunately, you buy flour from two different sources so you should still be able to keep your loyal customer base supplied with cookies.
All you have to do is to trace which cookies the flour from the company in question went into.
No problem; you have all of the paperwork for the shipments, and all your batch tickets filed in your office. The owner’s son is home from university for the weekend, and if you draft him (and his girlfriend), and get the office staff and sales reps from the tri-state area to come in on Saturday, you should be able to produce the lot list for recall by Monday morning.
Good thing the recall was not initiated by the FDA under the Bioterrorism Act, or you would have had to be ready by 2 PM Saturday!
As long as none of the paperwork is lost, you’ll be fine. Too bad about the vacation though.
There is a better way. A way that involves a few keystrokes, and about 10 minutes.
For the small food company that doesn’t yet run any other manufacturing quality software (Net Contents Control, Statistical Process Control, Equipment Downtime, Overall Equipment Effectiveness), we present QIC Trace™ Lite.
Using QIC Trace™ provides complete traceability on product from where the raw ingredients enter your building, all the way through to the lots that you ship out to your distribution channel.
Product traceability in the food industry is no picnic. Grains of salt do not have serial numbers, and many similar ingredients end up in a wide variety of products. QIC Trace™ was designed and written for the food industry.
Look at QIC Trace™Lite. The company owner will appreciate you more.