FoodLogiQ and Smart Online Unveil National Food Safety System

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — FoodLogiQ and Smart Online, are introducing a food safety and defense solution, National Food Safety System (NFSS), to enable producers, processors and retailers to satisfy their customer demands in a low cost and easy-to-use manner, according to a release.

“We worked with Smart Online to integrate on-demand food safety functions, including audit scheduling and fulfillment and laboratory testing into our proven RFID-based traceability solution. FoodLogiQ is building toward a food safety and compliance system that meets the growing needs of today’s demanding, global marketplace and helps to restore consumer confidence in the food industry,” said Andrew Kennedy, president, FoodLogiQ.

The NFSS combines low-cost, on-demand food safety and defense modules with a traceability engine and consumer textable farm of origin label codes, the companies said.
The NFSS can be used for all types of food, by all participants from growers to grocers in the local and global food supply chain to produce, process, distribute, defend and market high quality, safe food.

“Smart Online’s back-end technology enables organizations in the food chain ranging from a single farmer to local grocery stores to have a comprehensive solution without the upfront cost, ongoing maintenance or need for technology staff required by traditional software,” said Tom Furr, chief strategy officer, Smart Online.

The system is designed to address several significant industry issues, including:

• Global Food Safety Initiative — A major food retailers’ demand for food suppliers to meet one of the Global Food Safety Initiative standards by the end of 2008 left many food suppliers with a daunting compliance task ahead. With a food safety consultant marketplace and an open third-party audit system, the NFSS offers a low-cost solution to help food suppliers build GFSI compliant food safety systems, the companies said.

Product ID, Traceability and Recall — The software system incorporates traceability capabilities, which, in the event of a recall, could rapidly pinpoint and remove tainted products