FoodTRACE™ meets EVERY suggested requirement of the comments made today in Washington D.C.
IMPORTANT information announced today by, from left to right above, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelium and the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture Tom Vilsack.
On July 1, 2009, the Working Group submitted its general principles to the President. The Working Group identified three core food safety principles to guide the development of a modern, coordinated food safety system.
• Principle 1: Preventing harm to consumers is our first priority: Too often in the past, the food safety system has focused on reacting to problems rather than preventing harm in the first place. The Working Group recommends that food regulators shift towards prioritizing prevention and move aggressively to implement sensible measures designed to prevent problems before they occur. Key to this approach is setting rigorous standards for food safety and providing regulatory agencies the tools necessary to ensure that the food industry meets these standards.
• Principle 2: Effective food safety inspections and enforcement depend upon good data and analysis. High-quality information will help leading agencies know which foods are at risk; which solutions should be put into place; and who should be responsible. The Working Group recommends that the Federal government prioritize crucial inspection and enforcement activity across the world; support safety efforts by States, localities and businesses at home; and utilize data to guide these efforts and evaluate their outcomes.
• Principle 3: Outbreaks of foodborne illness should be identified quickly and stopped. The Working Group recommends the establishment of a food tracing system that shortens the time between outbreak detection, resolution, and recovery. It is in everyone’s interest for outbreaks to be rare in number, limited in scale, and short in duration.
NOTE: FoodTRACE is the ONLY system available for traceability today that combines traceability with epidemiology. As we have continually stated, part of our program includes working with illness data to assist in shortening the time of the overall impact of an outbreak.
An additional statement made today in this announcement was:
IMPORTANT information announced today by, from left to right above, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelium and the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture Tom Vilsack.
On July 1, 2009, the Working Group submitted its general principles to the President. The Working Group identified three core food safety principles to guide the development of a modern, coordinated food safety system.
• Principle 1: Preventing harm to consumers is our first priority: Too often in the past, the food safety system has focused on reacting to problems rather than preventing harm in the first place. The Working Group recommends that food regulators shift towards prioritizing prevention and move aggressively to implement sensible measures designed to prevent problems before they occur. Key to this approach is setting rigorous standards for food safety and providing regulatory agencies the tools necessary to ensure that the food industry meets these standards.
• Principle 2: Effective food safety inspections and enforcement depend upon good data and analysis. High-quality information will help leading agencies know which foods are at risk; which solutions should be put into place; and who should be responsible. The Working Group recommends that the Federal government prioritize crucial inspection and enforcement activity across the world; support safety efforts by States, localities and businesses at home; and utilize data to guide these efforts and evaluate their outcomes.
• Principle 3: Outbreaks of foodborne illness should be identified quickly and stopped. The Working Group recommends the establishment of a food tracing system that shortens the time between outbreak detection, resolution, and recovery. It is in everyone’s interest for outbreaks to be rare in number, limited in scale, and short in duration.
NOTE: FoodTRACE is the ONLY system available for traceability today that combines traceability with epidemiology. As we have continually stated, part of our program includes working with illness data to assist in shortening the time of the overall impact of an outbreak.
An additional statement made today in this announcement was:
Developing Industry Product Tracing Systems: Within three months, FDA will issue draft guidance on steps the food industry can take to establish product tracing systems to improve our national capacity for detecting the origins of foodborne illness.
Also today in a press release by the PMA’s President, Bryan Silberman stated the following as a part of his comments:
“Similarly, the traceback announcement appears consistent with our efforts on the Produce Traceability Initiative, though we will need to review the details as they emerge. The recognition of the clashing jurisdictions and the resulting disruptions to agencies charged with food safety is an important step toward creating a more rational and workable regulatory system.”
NOTE: The PMA cannot state as a fact that the GS standard or PTI as proposed, will, as a certainty, meet government guidelines.
FoodTRACE™ continues to be the only program being offered that has, and still, meets every nuance and area that has been or currently is in discussion regarding the requirements of the government regarding traceability. FoodTRACE™ offers a much more in depth program and at a fraction of the cost of the PTI.
We have been and will continue to follow the developments at government levels, but at FoodTRACE™, compliance with government guidelines, we have exceeded every area that has been discussed and continue to be affordable to all size companies.
Also today in a press release by the PMA’s President, Bryan Silberman stated the following as a part of his comments:
“Similarly, the traceback announcement appears consistent with our efforts on the Produce Traceability Initiative, though we will need to review the details as they emerge. The recognition of the clashing jurisdictions and the resulting disruptions to agencies charged with food safety is an important step toward creating a more rational and workable regulatory system.”
NOTE: The PMA cannot state as a fact that the GS standard or PTI as proposed, will, as a certainty, meet government guidelines.
FoodTRACE™ continues to be the only program being offered that has, and still, meets every nuance and area that has been or currently is in discussion regarding the requirements of the government regarding traceability. FoodTRACE™ offers a much more in depth program and at a fraction of the cost of the PTI.
We have been and will continue to follow the developments at government levels, but at FoodTRACE™, compliance with government guidelines, we have exceeded every area that has been discussed and continue to be affordable to all size companies.
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