{"id":2368,"date":"2010-08-31T20:27:40","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T03:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Food-Safety-tracking-and-tracing\/ba-p\/334476"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:19:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:19:03","slug":"food-safety-tracking-and-tracing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/food-safety-tracking-and-tracing\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Safety tracking and tracing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>A critical topic for the CPG Food &amp; Beverage industry is food and product safety. Any number of recalls over the past 18 months to 2 years, peanuts, toys, spinach, and most recently eggs makes this an urgent issue and was a topic of discussion this week at the GMA Executive Conference. <!--more--><BR \/><BR \/>There is a legislation pending to empower the FDA and put in place regulations to make the food supply chain safer. While this is not a simple topic,&nbsp;one&nbsp;clear need is for the ability to track and trace ingredients and components from farm to fork. The<STRONG> key insight<\/STRONG> here is that different technology is required at different points in the supply chain. What is critical for anyone involved in the food supply chain, e.g.,farmers, manufactuers and retailers,&nbsp;is that they must choose a technology partner&nbsp;with an&nbsp;&#8220;open&#8221; software philosophy, and able to offer the necessary interoperability.&nbsp; This full scope perspective by the industry,&nbsp; and by&nbsp;those who supply tracking and tracing technology from farm to fork, is essential to increase the safety of our food supply.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A critical topic for the CPG Food &amp; Beverage industry is food and product safety. Any number of recalls over the past 18 months to 2 years, peanuts, toys, spinach, and most recently eggs makes th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45655,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2369,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions\/2369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}