Beyond the normal process measurements needed to check that production is on track, analytical instrumentation can track important variables that can keep difficult-to-control processes on track.
Guarding against food fraud in the supply chain can be a costly, resource-intensive effort—but the potential effects of not catching it can be disastrous.
Severin Weiss, CEO of SpecPage and an expert in integrated software process solutions for recipe-based food and beverage processors, thinks PLM (product lifecycle management) and PDM (product data management) are two sets of tools that can help food processors avoid using fraudulent ingredients from less-than-scrupulous suppliers.
As brand manufacturers continue to source from an ever-growing list of ingredients and suppliers, food is now the fourth most valuable counterfeit market, according to the 2016 Brand Protection and Product Traceability Market Research Report.
Within the layered approach to brand protection are overt technologies — barcodes, holograms, watermarks, embossing and etching — and covert technologies — taggants, UV, infrared and fluorescent inks, Smart technology and radio frequency identification (RFID).
The redesigned database is meant to provide brand protection, increase consumer trust.
August 3, 2016
Its goal is to help food manufacturers and retailers make informed decisions about ingredients in their portfolio that may have a greater potential of being adulterated.