What the Food Traceability Rule Actually Requires The food traceability rule has moved traceability from a best practice to a documented requirement for a wide range of processors. Covered companies must maintain specific records around Critical Tracking Events. Those events span receiving, transformation, and shipping, and the records must be ready to produce quickly when regulators or customers ask. The compliance deadline gets most of the attention. The operational question underneath it matters just as much: if something goes wrong tomorrow, could your team actually answer in time? Most processors assume the answer is yes without ever putting it to…
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