Name: FSMA 204 in Practice: Building a Traceability-Ready Operation
Start: 2026-06-30T11:00:00-04:00
End: 2027-06-30T00:00:00-04:00

FSMA 204 in Practice: Building a Traceability-Ready Operation

6/30/26 11:00 am to 6/30/27 EDT

Contact: Vania Halabou

FSMA 204 is creating a major operational challenge for food safety, quality, supplier management, operations, and supply chain teams. For many businesses, traceability data is still fragmented across suppliers, customers, third parties, internal systems, spreadsheets, and paper-based records.

The challenge is not only understanding Critical Tracking Events (CTEs), Key Data Elements (KDEs), and Traceability Lot Codes (TLCs). It is knowing whether the right information can be captured, validated, connected, and retrieved quickly when it matters most. Under FSMA 204, covered businesses are required to maintain specific traceability records and provide them to FDA within 24 hours, when requested.

Join Kevin Donaghy, Bill Bremer, and Joe Buckley for a practical panel discussion on how food businesses can translate FSMA 204 into day-to-day operations, evaluate the strength of their current traceability records, and identify where traceability can break down across the supply chain.

The discussion will explore how businesses can move from fragmented records across systems, spreadsheets, and paper-based processes toward a more practical, connected, and defensible traceability readiness strategy. Attendees will gain insight into supplier coordination, lot tracking, documentation readiness, recall response, FDA-ready reporting, and building a traceability approach that works in the real world, not just on paper.

Key takeaways for attendees:

Learn how CTEs, KDEs, and TLCs apply to real-world activities in day-to-day operations
Explore how to assess whether your records are complete, accurate, searchable, connected, and ready to support a 24-hour FDA request
Understand common gaps that occur among suppliers, customers, third parties, and internal teams, and what businesses can do to improve coordination before an issue occurs
Learn how food businesses can move from fragmented records toward a more reliable approach for recall response, FDA requests, and supply chain visibility

Speakers:

Kevin Donaghy, Innovation Officer, Nulogy Quality and Compliance, Nulogy. Kevin Donaghy serves as Innovation Officer for Nulogy Quality and Compliance, where he helps shape the platform's FSQA, supplier compliance, and traceability capabilities. With a deep understanding of the operational challenges facing food safety and quality teams, Kevin focuses on translating industry needs into practical product innovation that helps organizations improve visibility, standardize processes, connect data, and strengthen audit and traceability readiness.

Bill Bremer, Regulatory Affairs Advisor and FSPG Board Member. Bill Bremer is a food safety compliance expert with 30 years of experience advising food companies on FDA/FSMA, GFSI, and HACCP compliance across manufacturing, distribution, and CPG environments. He is a GFSI Technical Working Group delegate, a certified ISO 9001 lead assessor, and founder of the Food Safety Professionals Group.

Joe Buckley, M.B.A., Director, Food Safety and Quality Assurance, Sysco Corporation. Joe Buckley, M.B.A. is Director for Food Safety and Quality Assurance at Sysco Corporation. He and his team oversee the execution of food safety and regulatory requirements across Sysco's U.S. broadline operating sites. Joe has spent 17 years in foodservice distribution, both in warehouse operations and in food safety/quality assurance, and he is heavily involved with the FSMA 204 project team at Sysco. Joe is HACCP certified and a Preventative Controls Qualified Individual (PCQI). He holds a B.A. degree in English and an M.B.A. degree in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Moderator: Adrienne Blume, Editorial Director, Food Safety Magazine

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