Food products pass through multiple critical points in the supply chain, such as harvesting, cooling, processing, storing, distributing, and retail.
Accurate monitoring of temperature, and humidity is critical to ensuring food safety, quality, and compliance with traceability requirements. The FDA’s Food Traceability Final Rule introduces enhanced recordkeeping requirements on the Food Traceability List (FTL). These rules aim to improve the speed and accuracy of identifying and removing contaminated food from the market.

Key points include:
*Cooling: Active temperature reduction methods must be documented.
*Shipping: Traceability information in an electronic sortable spreadsheet must be provided to the FDA within 24 hours upon request.
*Monitoring: Temperature and humidity records are required for compliance.
These rules apply to U.S.-based and global producers exporting to the U.S., ensuring traceability across all supply chain stages.

Fourtec’s products aim to assist in ensuring food safety, food shelf life, and the reduction of food loss and waste by offering temperature and humidity monitoring solutions for the food and food processing market.

The Fourtec’s DataSuite software and FourtecLite Android app enable data monitoring & analysis, as well as lifetime data storage that can be reviewed in graphs, tables, and logger statistics, printed or exported into Excel or CSV files.