The FDA has launched a challenge to spur the development of affordable, tech-enabled traceability tools for human and animal foods.
The FDA has launched a challenge to spur the development of affordable, tech-enabled traceability tools for human and animal foods. Through this challenge, the agency seeks food traceability solutions that use economic models that are affordable, with costs that are proportional to the benefits received, and can scale to encourage widespread adoption.
The agency says the primary goal of the challenge is to encourage stakeholders—including technology providers, public health advocates, entrepreneurs and innovators from all disciplines and around the world—to develop traceability hardware, software or data analytics platforms that are low-cost or no-cost to the end user—thereby enabling human and animal food operations of all sizes to implement affordable traceability systems, create shared value and scale to widespread adoption.