The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has launched a new educational video series on the food safety benefits that come with the use of tech-enabled traceability by food businesses. The first video in the series focuses on supply chain technology and builds on 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 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.