Industry Solutions

HACCP and Food Safety

Recent news headlines continue to expose contaminations in the food supply that have been accountable for serious illnesses across the United States. Organizations involved in the manufacturing, processing, testing or packaging of food and beverages face the threat of regulatory, legal and public scrutiny, and the possibility of financial loss and decreased public confidence.

GMP legislation requires that food and beverage organizations implement controls to monitor food safety programs. Additionally, food and beverage companies must also comply with HACCP, a management system in which food safety is addressed through the analysis and control of biological, chemical, and physical hazards. For successful implementation of a HACCP plan, management must be strongly committed to the HACCP concept and must have systems in place to ensure compliance with its requirements.

TrackWise HACCP Management Solutions

TrackWise software enables food and beverage companies to protect brand equity and reduce safety hazards by implementing an enterprise quality and compliance management system, which improves safety controls throughout the food production process. TrackWise centralizes management, tracking, and reporting of process controls, food safety procedures, and corrective and preventive actions to facilitate compliance with HACCP, as well as ISO 22000 and ISO 14001 food safety management systems standards.

TrackWise HACCP and Food Safety Management Applications

  • Complaint handling
  • Violation tracking
  • Critical Control Point monitoring
  • Allergen tracking (segregation, handling, cleaning)
  • Change management
  • Plant assessments
  • Management and in-plant training
  • Templates and checklists for Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) audits
  • Contamination investigation, root cause analysis, and corrective and preventive actions (CAPA)
  • Raw agricultural commodity tracking (harvesting, storage, distribution)
  • Action item management
 

Benefits

  • Increase vigilance over HACCP compliance by integrating and relating all quality information and data in a centralized system.
  • Establish process stability by analyzing performance records via integrated reporting and trending tools.
  • Production of safer food products in any industry segment of the food industry (growing, processing, manufacturing, distributing and preparing food) through continuous improvement.
  • Enhance customer loyalty by effectively tracking and managing complaints, and related investigations and corrective actions.
  • Reduce material and production costs through tracking scorecards and key performance indicators (KPIs).
  • Improve visibility of the entire quality system and potential product safety issues via the TrackWise Dashboard, ad hoc query capability and automatic notifications.
  • Reduce liability as a result of consistent evaluation and remediation of biological, chemical and physical hazards.
  • Proactive response to potential consumer problems by complaint trending and analysis.
  • Increase processing efficiencies with real-time view of compliance across the organizations and the supply chain.
  • Reduce administrative costs and duplicate efforts by leveraging TrackWise's 24/7 business rules engine, which automates manual procedures and escalates issues based on priority, due date, and other criteria.
  • Improve audit preparedness by utilizing on-line checklists for internal audits.
  • Minimize of critical response issues through proactive trending, while assuring the follow-up of violations or discrepancies through completion.