Jackson Farming Company and FoodLogiQ Partner to Address the Produce Traceability Initiative

RALEIGH-DURHAM, N.C. - FoodLogiQ, aleading provider of On Demand food safety and traceability software, today announced their partnership with Jackson Farming Company to address the produce traceability initiative and House Bill 2749, Food Safety Enhacement Act of 2009.
 
Brent Jackson met FoodLogiQ at the United Fresh Event in Las Vegas in April at the Produce Traceabiltiy Initiative (PTI) demonstration center. There were over 14 vendors and service providers showcasing their services to the industry to help them meet the requirements as outlined in the PTI. Brent wanted to get ahead of the Q3 2010 deadline where produce items will require lot code information encoded in a barcode and human readable format on case labels. Having evaluated several vendors, “We chose FoodLogiQ because of their industry expertise, proven implementation experience, and pragmatic and cost effective approach to both case and item level traceability,” said Brent Jackson, Owner Jackson Farming Company.
 
The initial focus of the project was on deploying case level traceability to meet the requirements of PTI. As such, Jackson Farming Company working with FoodLogiQ strategized on GTIN allocations for products, analyzed packing shed operations to determine how best to leverage existing hardware, and developed and tested case labeling within Jackson Farming Company operations.
 
The case labels meet PTI and uniquely, each case is encoded with a textable code that will enable authorized users in the supply chain to leverage their mobile device to find the full traceability information about the case. If the FDA, internal or external party do not have a barcode reader they can leverage the text message code service to do a traceback.