ScoringAg Provides Item-level Traceability for COOL law

[PORKER]

ScoringAg Introduces Item-level Traceability
RFID tag kit's
Complete information for RFID in pharma industry



[01/25/08]
ScoringAg is a worldwide web-based computer database system that offer's retailers access to extensive traceback records, pictures, and videos to prove Country of Origin for item level individual and commingled foods.

This gives retailers Country of Origin (COOL) law compliance labeling, and documented audit trails, and consumer's peace of mind with the speed of a mouse click. A unique SSI-EID item level code that displays public information of real time product data can be applied to every clamshell, case, bin, container, single fruit or vegetable, package of meats or meat products, as well as all other grocery products and ingredients.

Using ScoringAg traceback product code, automatically created inside the database using 2D barcodes, printed on a label with or without RFID, for every clamshell or product, gives the food handlers at all levels of the distribution chain the audit trail and Source Verification of Country of Origin, certifications, good agricultural practices performed and field audits in real time. There is no need to wait for an audit or certification information after the fact for traceability from food chain suppliers and handlers. ScoringAg is the only worldwide standardized record keeping system where the document records move with the product through its coded PIDC location and unique labeling system.

ScoringAg records enable wholesalers, retailers, restaurant chefs, and consumers to decide what country of origin, and quality of purchases they want. As the records in the ScoringAg database can't be falsified or changed once data is entered, there is a true documentation and a source verification of all product movements. The consumer can retrieve the public information via a store or home computer or internet cell phone.

HACPP, GAP's, BMP's, FDA Bio-Terrorism rules, field audits, and other food safety quality control system documents of conventional, natural, and organic grown products with all kinds of certifications, mostly at the producer, processor, and importer levels are great, but they don't prevent recalls as recent events have shown. Certifications, lot numbers, and branded labels do not provide an item level coding for traceback of documents from grocers shelves to the field or source production site audits in real time. Third party certification's, BMP and GAP field audit's with the ScoringAg's audit trail verification record keeping system regains consumer confidence while providing full item level traceability in seconds. Recalls if needed are site-specific, time-specific, handler-specific and item-specific as to not disrupt the total food chain supply as to what happened in the spinach, produce, and the latest meat and food product recalls.

The industry does not need more food safety laws, government regulations, what it needs is a effective real time database that sellers and buyers see traceability data that's needed to comply with regulations within seconds as provided by ScoringAg. What is needed is a time stamped database with daily documentations to prove compliance throughout all of the complete food supply chain of activities, including transportation and warehousing as built and provided by ScoringAg.

Having a ScoringAg traceback system in place provides needed information within seconds by knowing the audited path of handlers and packers whether from the initial production field or from commingling of other fields to the final package that the consumer buys.

Food growers, importers, and processors along with retailers will now face the toughest questions of food origin and quality. 90%+ of the consumers want to know where the food comes from. The biggest challenges for the Retailer and Restaurants now is to renew confidence and loyalty to their customers with products featuring searchable ScoringAg traceback codes.

ScoringAg's traceback and trace up system for all agriculture products, featuring Site-Specific Recordkeeping and PIDC location codes, is one of the many divisions of ScoringSystem, Inc., located in Bradenton, Florida USA. The company specializes in providing solutions with mobile data, via wireless PDA's, laptops, and Semacode programmed internet ready Nokia, Siemens, and Sony Ericsson cell phones. SSI-EID food code searches can be done thru these other web sites, www.Traceback.com and www.ScoringRestaurants.com to display public product records. With the use of RFID codes, SSI-EID label codes, and 2-D barcodes for trace up and traceback of livestock and crops, produce, ingredients, tracking transport containers or perishable meats and other consumer goods, www.ScoringAg.com and www.ScoringContainers.com makes managing data easier and does it in an extremely low cost effective manner.

 

[PORKER]

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[William Kanitz]

Thank you ,Porker

 

[PORKER]

Mr. Kanitz, I see that the Packer did one great interview of ScoringAg.They are the most respected name in their industry.

ScoringAg touts 'immediate, inexpensive' traceback
The Packer - Lenexa,KS,USA
By Angie Hanson

(Feb. 7/08) Three seconds is all ScoringAg requires when tracking a product's lineage.

In that time, growers, shippers, packers, transportation providers and retailers can view an item's traceback records and inspection history.

ScoringAg is a global, online record-keeping system housing data for thousands of fruit and vegetable products, said William Kanitz, president of Sarasota, Fla.-based ScoringSystem Inc., which developed ScoringAg.

ScoringAg's objective is to provide a simple, reliable, immediate, inexpensive traceback system that minimizes foodsafety risks for handlers worldwide and helps avoid product ambiguity in future recalls, Kanitz said of the Web site, www.scoringag.com .

"This system provides a verifiable audit trail, and with the click of a button, it can give you that in three seconds," Kanitz said. "It's an exchange of information along the way, so everyone's happy. And, if there is a problem, we only recall the portion where there is a problem, not in every warehouse in the U.S. That's what the industry needs."

To search an item's history, registered users can enter either barcode, radio frequency identification(RFID) or SSI-EID codes — which is the internal code ScoringAg automatically creates when a grower, shipper or packer registers a product in its system — and the product's real-time profile is instantly uploaded, Kanitz said.

The profile features any commodity information the handler wants to include — such as origin, producer, lot number, harvest dates, certifications and tests received —and each product's records accompany it through the supply chain, Kanitz said.

Additionally, the records are secure, so if there is an error, a new report is created, and the Unix-based system chronologically archives the product's previous records, he said.

"We're looking to make life easier for produce brokers and retailers," Kanitz said. "The records travel with the product from field to fork."

The system also separates traceback information for each item included in mixed packs, so there is no confusion about the origin of the individual products, Kanitz said.

Like RFID and barcodes, retailers can find SSI-EID codes on the individual item or package. Chains like Publix and Wal-Mart have expressed interest in using the record-keeping catalog, Kanitz said.

Costs are minimal, too, as only $10 is needed to establish an account on ScoringAg — a considerably cheaper alternative than companies creating their own traceback networks, he said.

Not to mention, total SSI-EID label costs will only amount to one-fourth of a penny for shippers and packers, while growers are charged 55 cents for each commodity field they want to feature in the database, he said.

ScoringAg is available in English, Spanish and Portuguese, and French and German translations are in the works.

The Unix-based system, however, uses UTF-8 — a uniform way of representing characters entered in a computer — so the database recognizes any language that is typed into the system.

Consumers also can access ScoringAg, but they receive a public version of the records that don't include the grower's name, he said.

Down the road, Kanitz hopes to make consumers more aware of ScoringAg by having kiosks set up in grocery stores where consumers can punch in the code.

Kanitz would also like to see a universal symbol established in the produce industry that indicates whether or not an item is traceable, he said.

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

This is pathetic. :roll:

Why don't you guys buy some advertising on here. :???:

 

[PORKER]

Hey ,Big Muddy , When you sign up in ScoringAg , I will have my income from your signup , Then I will to pay for the advertisment.

 

[PORKER]

Agriculture

R-CALF supports traceback


By R-CALF Thursday, March 6, 2008 3:55 PM MST


Washington, D.C. — In letters sent to Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., and Rep. Dennis Rehberg, R-Mont., this week, R-CALF USA relayed that the organization has endorsed and supports what is referred to as The Traceback Bill, a proposal by John Munsell of Montana to achieve traceback of beef products to their point of slaughter, and requested that the trio consider carrying the proposed legislation forward to both chambers of Congress.

"One reason for our endorsement of this proposal is the recent E.coli recalls in America," wrote R-CALF USA President/Region VI Director Max Thornsberry, a Missouri veterinarian. "Subsequent news media reports show that consumers' confidence has been shaken, which could reduce consumer demand for our beef products. R-CALF is concerned that continuing recalls will occur until USDA forces the slaughter plants, which are the origin of E.coli and salmonella-contaminated meat, to implement effective corrective actions.

"If passed, The Traceback Bill proposal would require USDA to trace back to the plant of pathogen contamination, and force noncompliant plants to change production practices to reduce the likelihood of shipping contaminated meat into commerce," he continued. "R-CALF firmly believes that USDA enforcement actions must be directed toward plants that are the source of contamination, not at downstream facilities, which are the destination of previously contaminated meat."

ALLThe Traceback Bill proposal would need is SCORINGAG to do the traceback.

 

[mwj]

This is pathetic. :roll:

Why don't you guys buy some advertising on here. :???:

You and I share the very same opinion, the adds get very old very quickly! If the product is so much better we should not need to be reminded on every third or fourth post :roll:

 

[Bill]

This is pathetic. :roll:

Why don't you guys buy some advertising on here. :???:

You and I share the very same opinion, the adds get very old very quickly! If the product is so much better we should not need to be reminded on every third or fourth post :roll:

That's something most of us can agree on. :roll:

 

[PORKER]

FDA takes new approach on feed safety with traceback of ingredients
// 05 jun 2008

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the US takes a more methodic approach to safety of animal feed. The Animal Feed Safety System will focus on risk assessment and preventive measures.


The FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine is developing a comprehensive Animal Feed Safety System (AFSS) to help protect the health of companion animals, production animals, and humans. A core concept of the AFSS is applying risk assessment to contaminants in ingredients for animal feed, including pet food.

Gaps in the system
George Graber, PhD, a former CVM official who organized the AFSS team and now serves as a consultant, said the FDA's existing programs to ensure safety of animal feed have focused on a few specific issues such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy and medicated feeds. "There are gaps in the system, so the FDA is trying to modernize and strengthen it," Dr. Graber said. "The agency is expanding the universe of firms, operations, and people who are going to be impacted."

Another core AFSS concept is emphasizing preventive measures. Dr. Alfred Montgomery, CVM counterterrorism coordinator, said veterinarians should be aware of the AFSS because animal feed is a linchpin in the relationship between animal and human health. "What threatens animal feed threatens the food chain and also companion animals that are part of the family," Dr. Montgomery said. "We need help from the veterinary community as we move forward for guidance and assistance in implementing this effort."

The latest draft of the AFSS framework includes six components that cover ingredients, contaminants, manufacturing, reporting of unsafe feed, regulatory oversight, and education and outreach.

Purina Chow has a horse feed recall;
Eastern U.S.
Voluntary Product Retrieval Update
(May 8, 2008)http://www.avma.org/onlnews/javma/jun08/080615e.asp

Purina Mills issued a recall of certain horse feeds and other products through local dealers in mid-February after tests detected aflatoxin in an ingredient, and the company released an update about the situation in May following questions from animal owners.

In February, company tests of incoming ingredients and routine state regulatory testing at a manufacturing plant in Statesville, N.C., found aflatoxin concentrations exceeding the Food and Drug Administration's action levels. An internal investigation determined that a single ingredient from a single supplier was the source of the aflatoxin. The supplier also served the Purina Mills plants in Harrisburg, Pa., and Guilderland, N.Y.

Purina Mills suspended purchases from the supplier. The recall does not apply to products that the Statesville or Harrisburg plants manufactured after Feb. 8 or that the Guilderland plant manufactured after March 10.

The recall applies to products in the following states: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia. The recall also applies to products in eastern Tennessee and northern Georgia.

A list of products subject to the recall is available at
www.purinamills.com.