MILLBURY,
MA (Sharewellnewswire.com) August 16, 2012 - One of the big fears for
many small and mid-sized food processors is that they get a shipment of
contaminated ingredients or that some employee makes a critical mistake
that results in defective or contaminated food products being shipped
to customers.
If
the company does not have good records as to what ingredients went into
which products, and to which customer the products were shipped, the
company can be forced by the FDA or the USDA to recall every product
they have made that is still in the supply chain. The cost of this
recall and the damage to their reputation can easily put a small or
mid-sized food processor out of business.
BellHawk
Systems now offers a simple-to-use software solution at a cost starting
at under $300/month. This software can be installed at each company’s
own processing plant or used as an on-line service over the Internet.
This solution makes use of barcode scanning technology to enable easy
capture of the traceability data. It stores the materials traceability
data in an electronic database for rapid recall when needed.
The system produces three primary reports, as Excel spreadsheets:
- Trace forward from a Julian date lot number and product code, to all the customers who received the product.
- Trace back to all ingredients by supplier and lot number that went into a specific batch of product.
- Trace forward from a defective or contaminated ingredient to all batches in which this ingredient was used.
By
making use of barcode tracking technology and mobile devices,
production workers and material handlers are able to easily capture
materials traceability data in real-time. This data then enables food
processors to rapidly carry out recall practice drills as well as to
quickly respond to real emergencies.
Most
importantly, the BellHawk solution enables food processors to minimize
the cost and damage to their reputation when a recall is required by
limiting the scope to just those products that are defective, rather
than doing a massive recall.
Recently,
it cost one small food processor over a million dollars to recall
products, when they used some contaminated peppers as an ingredient.
When compared to this, $300 a month is a small price to pay for
minimizing the scope of the recall.
For more information, please see www.BellHawk.com or call 1-508-865-8070 and press “1” for expert assistance.
Source: http://www.sharewellnewswire.com/simple-materials-traceability-for-food-processors-2424.htm/#ixzz23neTP9BI
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