The Produce Traceability Initiative (
www.producetraceability.org) is an industry-wide effort to bring electronic traceability to the produce supply chain by 2012.
Every case of produce must identify the brand owner, the Lot#/Batch#, and the pack or harvest date. Additionally, systems must be in place to record, store, and convey this information for all in bound cases as well as out bound cases.
The goal of the PTI is to improve food safety by enabling product tracking throughout the produce supply chain. This is achieved by implementing the GS1 128 standard for labeling and recording producer and production information.
The timeline of the PTI is as follows:
Carlisle Technology is well-equipped to help produce companies meet and exceed the PTI requirements, in order to provide expanded productivity benefits. With years of experience providing bar coding solutions for the food industry, Carlisle Technology is well ahead of the curve with regards to traceability solutions for produce.
We have been providing bar code labeling, scanning, and traceability solutions for the meat and poultry industry in North America since 1988. Our first projects involving GS1 128 bar code labels were in 1993 when Loblaw Company, Canada's largest grocery retailer, required meat and poultry companies to code cases of catch weight (variable weight) products with the brand new UCC/EAN-128 bar code (now called GS1-128).
