FDA New Era of Smarter Food Safety Tech-Enabled Traceability Video Series: Supply Chain Technology

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published its first video in an educational series focused on how food companies’ use of tech-enabled traceability can enhance food safety and protect consumers from foodborne illness. This resource, focused on supply chain technology, builds upon key themes from the 2021 FDA New Era of Smarter Food Safety Low- or No-Cost Tech-Enabled Traceability Challenge.

Episode 1 of the series features video from five participating companies demonstrating various approaches to low or no cost traceability technologies within diverse parts of the food supply chain. The video showcases how the food industry can help create a more digital, efficient, and safe food system that will benefit both consumers and food producers. The roundtable participants discuss opportunities for firms to voluntarily adopt tracing technologies, harmonize tracing activities, and ways to incentivize the development and implementation of scalable and cost-effective traceability hardware, software, or data analytics platforms.

This video is an important resource for food producers, technology providers, and other interested stakeholders to advance food traceability concepts and support efforts to ultimately achieve end-to-end traceability throughout the food safety system, at low-or-no-cost to the end user, as outlined under the New Era of Smarter Food Safety blueprint.
FDA will use the video series to help educate stakeholders on the importance of supply chain collaboration and to foster important conversations about the opportunities and challenges to achieving tech-enabled traceability and data modernization.

This video series includes companies that participated in the Low-or-no-cost Tech-Enabled Challenge and that expressed interest in participating in this video series. FDA does not endorse any technology, company, or solution, and the views and opinions of the video series participants represent those of the speakers and should not be considered to represent advice or guidance on behalf of FDA. Participating companies in Episode 1 are Morpheus Network, Bamboo Rose, Nira, iFoodDS, Varcode.

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0:00 - Introduction
3:10 - Morpheus Network
5:50 - Bamboo Rose
7:53 - Nira
10:38 - iFoodDS
13:35 - Varcode
17:55 - Roundtable Discussion