Farmsoft traceability
Onion traceability app
Lot-level onion 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
Onion trace points
The records that make a onion trace work:
- Grower, field and harvest per bin
- Curing and storage bay
- Grading and sizing lot
- Mesh bag, sack and carton lot
- Customer, PO and delivery
Regulation and industry context
Onion is not on the FDA Food Traceability List, but retailers, GFSI schemes and export markets still require one-step-back, one-step-forward traceability.
The 2020 US Salmonella outbreak linked to red onions sickened more than 1,000 people and led to a recall covering onions from one grower across the US and Canada – a recall scope that lot-level records would have narrowed. Diced and sliced onions are fresh-cut products on the Food Traceability List.
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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- Onion storage
- Onion quality inspection
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Questions
Is onion on the FDA Food Traceability List?
Onion 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 onion 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
- foodsafetynews.com – publishers platform what did we learn or not from the 2020 onion outbrea
- produceprocessing.net – traceability connecting the dots
- refrigeratedfrozenfood.com – 87751 traceability software helps onion packer improve productivity
- groupevegco.com – food safety and traceability
- groupecoisnon.fr – tracabilite
- ortideiberici.it – traceability
- researchgate.net – 335713777 Onionchain Towards Balancing Privacy and Traceability of Block