Farmsoft traceability
Potato traceability app
Lot-level potato traceability from field to customer: receival, storage, packing, QC and dispatch recorded by scan, with recalls and mock recalls in seconds.
Seconds to run a forward or backward trace
90% lower administration and audit effort
100% scan-verified picking and shipping
24 h FSMA 204 record request – met instantly
Potato trace points
The records that make a potato trace work:
- Seed lot and paddock per crop
- Harvest and storage bin or bay
- Washing, grading and sizing lot
- Bag, carton and tote lot codes
- Customer, PO and delivery date
Regulation and industry context
Potato is not on the FDA Food Traceability List, but retailers, GFSI schemes and export markets still require one-step-back, one-step-forward traceability.
Potato supply chains vary in depth: some trace from retailer back to the field, others only to a key point such as storage. Standards-based systems – for example the AUSVEG case study on potatoes and cherries and Red Tractor assurance in the UK – link seed lot, field and storage to every pack.
How Producepak records it
- Lot label at receival with supplier, field and harvest data
- Storage moves recorded by scan
- Batch inputs (produce and packaging) linked to outputs
- QC results and photos attached to the lot
- Pallets scanned to customer, PO and invoice
- Recall by supplier, lot, PO, invoice, pallet, date or any custom key
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Questions
Is potato on the FDA Food Traceability List?
Potato is not on the FDA Food Traceability List, but retailers, GFSI schemes and export markets still require one-step-back, one-step-forward traceability.
How fast is a potato recall trace?
Seconds. Every lot is linked by scan from receival to dispatch, so forward and backward traces are a single search.
Which labels are supported?
GS1 GTIN and SSCC, PTI case labels with voice pick codes, and retailer formats including Walmart, Woolworths, Coles, ALDI and Tesco.
Sources and further reading
- ausveg.com.au – case study potatoes cherries using a standards based traceability system
- redtractorassurance.org.uk – traceability and assurance status 30
- wisconsinpotatoes.com – traceability
- potatobusiness.com – integrating traceability solutions in the potato supply chain
- edepot.wur.nl
- iof2020.eu – data processing exchange
- potatonewstoday.com – traceability new technology to monitor supply of potato seed in india
- bayer.com – BCSI FCP CAS 004 18 Brazil Potato EN 190122 RZ web
- xcelerator.siemens.com – trusted traceability