Westminster, CO -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/26/2014 -- The 2014 Annual TraceGains’ Food Safety & Quality Assurance (FSQA) Professional Survey polled professionals from food manufacturing, processing, and distribution from across the country. The sole purpose was to understand the current state of the FSQA profession. Jenn Brusco, TraceGains’ Marketing Specialists noted, “The analysis revealed key topics, which ensure food quality and safety and top priorities for FSQA professionals. It also included the top food safety and quality assurance challenges.”
According to the survey results, audit readiness is deemed critical or very important. Three quarters (75%) of respondents indicated access to supplier documentation and compliance of incoming ingredients to specifications is either critical or very important to rapidly and successfully pass audits.
Rapidly changing and voluminous new food safety regulation combined with the potentially high cost of noncompliance, makes audit preparation increasingly important. Audit readiness was ranked as high importance by FSQA professionals completing the survey.
The importance of a reliable supplier, compliance, and regulatory document management system becomes essential as food manufacturers increase their number of global and domestic suppliers. Eighty-seven percent of survey respondents identified that a document management system is a critical requirement to create one version of data truth both internally and externally.
To access to the survey results and implications for the industry, go to: http://hub.am/1cUbrh1.
TraceGains offers access to pre-audit, inspection day audit, and post audit checklists to help food manufacturers prepare for the audit process. These checklists can be found at:
Pre-Audit Checklist: http://hub.am/1eADTEa
Inspection Day Checklist: http://hub.am/1eAE4iP
Post-Audit Checklist: http://hub.am/1hWAAPC
About TraceGains, Inc.
TraceGains (http://www.tracegains.com) provides food and beverage manufacturers and distributors with a web-based, full-service supplier, compliance, and regulatory document management solution that automates and streamlines processes to convert static documents into actionable data. With a network of more than 5,000 supplier members and more than 250 deployment sites, TraceGains offers an ever-expanding database of suppliers, purchased items, and documents that companies can leverage to improve product quality, accelerate product development, and meet regulatory and audit pressures. TraceGains not only digitizes all incoming documents, making them easily searchable, but also extracts critical data and analyzes them against customer-specific business and compliance rules, alerting stakeholders to any non-compliance. TraceGains’ automated solution assures companies that documentation is up to date, organized, and searchable, making companies 365 Audit Ready. TraceGains’ customers boast a four to six month return on their investment. Recently, TraceGains was listed as one of Food Logistics Top 100 software and technology providers. TraceGains is exhibiting at the Food Safety Summit April 8-10 at the Baltimore Convention Center, Booth #623. Follow TraceGains on Twitter at @tracegains.
TraceGains, Inc.
http://www.tracegains.com
Jennifer Brusco
Marketing Strategist
pr@tracegains.com
720-465-9400