 New Barcode Solves Traceability Challenge For Fresh Foods
What happens when the FDA issues a fresh food recall? Even a quick look at today’s fresh foods department includes a staggering array of choices. There’s salmon, char, tilapia, flounder, halibut, cod, sole, and many other fish varieties … Macintosh, Fuji, Gala, Braeburn, Granny Smith, Red Delicious, and Rome Beauty are only some types of apples … there are hundreds of types of cheeses produced all over the world. To identify fresh foods unambiguously, improve traceability, and solve other supply chain challenges, 9 major US food associations have endorsed GS1 standards such as the GS1 DataBarTM (formerly RSS) for the fresh food supply chain. The American Lamb Board, the Food Marketing Institute, the International Dairy-Deli-Bakery Association, the National Turkey Federation, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association on behalf of the Beef Board, the National Chicken Council, the National Fisheries Institute, the National Pork Board, and the Produce Marketing Association have jointly released a roadmap calling for every product in the fresh food supply chain to be identified with a Global Trade Item Number® (GTIN®), which is a number that contains the U.P.C. Company Prefix of the organization that produced it.
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