Lot Traceability & Recall | Vicinity Software

About 48 million people in the U.S. (1 in 6) get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die each year from foodborne diseases, according to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This is a significant public health burden that is largely preventable.

The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) is transforming the nation’s food safety system by shifting the focus from responding to foodborne illness to preventing it. Congress enacted FSMA in response to dramatic changes in the global food system and in our understanding of foodborne illness and its consequences, including the realization that preventable foodborne illness is both a significant public health problem and a threat to the economic well-being of the food system.

FDA has finalized seven major rules to implement FSMA, recognizing that ensuring the safety of the food supply is a shared responsibility among many different points in the global supply chain for both human and animal food. The FSMA rules are designed to make clear specific actions that must be taken at each of these points to prevent contamination.

Vicinity provides the ability to perform a total tracking of all raw materials received into the production facility, placed into manufacturing and shipped to customers. This will allow Vicinity clients to perform a recall from a raw material source all the way to finished goods destination AND from finished goods back to the supplier of the raw materials. The FDA can require a turn around of this lot trace in 4-48 hours depending on the likelihood of contamination. Vicinity provides results instantaneously.