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The mission at TraceGains (www.TraceGains.com) is to protect the brand of food and beverage clients by eliminating problems before product is shipped to the customer.
Recently Georgia legislators, and other states are slated to follow, are taking reactionary and draconian legislative measures. After Georgia-made peanut products were named as the culprit in a nationwide salmonella outbreak, state lawmakers have moved quickly on a bill to make Georgia the first state to require food makers to swiftly alert state inspectors if their internal tests show their products are tainted. The proposed food safety regulations would require the food processors to report the results within 24 hours. Never mind false positives, bad testing data, damaged brand protection from erroneous media reporting, and other nefarious outcomes. Federal officials, food scientists, legal experts and industry groups cannot point to another state with similar requirements and will cause many food manufacturers to vacate the state, causing significant job losses at a time when such a results can least be afforded.
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(a)ÂÂÂÂÂÂ a unique identification number for each shipper
(b)ÂÂÂÂÂÂ identification of the owner
(c)ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ product number identifying the contents of the carton
(d)ÂÂÂÂÂÂ production lot number or other production identifier
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Initially, the labeling can be at the individual case or master case level (whichever is most appropriate), but labeling quickly should move in the next five years to individual items inside the case as appropriate. We donâ