Richard Ross of TraceGains Participates in Traceability Session at Food Safety Summit April 28th

Vendor Round Table panel discussion "What's Wrong with our Tracking and Traceability System" at this year's Food Safety Summit.  The Traceability session will be taking place on Tuesday, April 28th from 1:15 - 2:00 in Theatre B.  The Theatre is located toward the back of the hall near booth 826 &827.  Barbara Van Renterghem is the session’s moderator, and the panel will include Richard Ross is Director of Industry Relations for TraceGains, Inc.  According to Ross, “A new imperative has appeared.  Consumer trust of food safety is shaken.  Food businesses are realizing that traceability and supply-chain monitoring exposes an opportunity for additional profit.  Although the consumer has always had the power to influence the food industry, that influence is being heard loud and clear – safe, flavorful and affordable food - and the food businesses are listening intently.” 

TraceGains will showcase these critical technology solutions in Booth 318, at the Food Safety Summit, April 27 - 29, 2009 in Washington, D.C. The Food Safety Summit is the largest and most established food safety and defense exposition in North America. It features a full program of intensive educational seminars, workshops networking events and a large trade show exhibition.

Each year, the Summit provides food processors, retailers, food service, government, military and academic professionals a forum to learn from expert speakers and trainers. It is an opportunity to exchange ideas, find solutions to current job challenges and engage in networking opportunities.

The 2009 Summit takes place April 27th - 29th at the Washington DC Convention Center. It includes two and a half days of intensive education covering traditional concerns (E. coli, product tampering, employee training, microbiological testing) and rapidly emerging concerns (bioterrorism, traceability, lab automation, global regulatory trends).

By correlating and analyzing previously disparate data sets in the value chain, only TraceGains makes it possible to connect upstream inputs, suppliers, and raw materials to downstream outcomes such product quality or customer satisfaction. Firms can coach or replace poorly performing suppliers and counteract profit-draining events within the enterprise, as well perpetuate positive practices internally and throughout the supply chain, to achieve complete profit optimization.  At TraceGains this is achieved through the Profit Optimizer.

The mission at TraceGains (www.TraceGains.com) is to protect the brand of food and beverage clients by eliminating problems before product is shipped to the customer.   If a problem does occur this unique solution can minimize the brand damage by using patented recall trace-back and track-forward technologies. A recall alert can be initiated within minutes, reducing potentially bad news to one news cycle, and saving customers millions of dollars in long-term brand rehabilitation costs. The Recall Detective analyzes critical risk factors, going beyond material movement tracking; the Recall Minimizer provides instant multiple scenarios for reduced brand damage. 

TraceGains Inc.

www.tracegains.com

Marc Simony, Director of Marketing

traceability@tracegains.com

(303)682-9898