Addressing the Food Safety Paradox
Thanks to advancements such as the International Standards Organisation (ISO), the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) testing procedure, and the international food standards commission, Codex Alimentarius, the world’s food supply has never been safer.
Yet, at the same time the means of manipulation – including genetically modified organisms (GMOs), pesticides, hormones, and additives – have never been more prevalent. The resulting paradox highlights the importance of food safety and traceability to minimise and manage risk in today’s revolutionised, but vulnerable food chain.
In the past three decades, the world’s food chain has evolved from a short, local chain to an international mass food business. Food safety monitoring is a logical and necessary consequence of this evolution, particularly as consumers are bombarded with confusing and sometimes conflicting claims and messages regarding food products.
Taking a Phased Approach to Traceability
Capgemini’s pragmatic, phased approach – from awareness and mobilisation through implementation and monitoring – is designed to help consumer products and retail companies improve their performance in food tracking and tracing. Our food safety and traceability methodology consists of the following phases:
- Build awareness and mobilisation
- Determine level of ambition
- Scan current situation
- Establish blueprint
- Implementation
- Monitor traceability performance
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