TraceGains Accelerates Automates and Simplifies BRC Audits
According to TraceGains' CEO Gary Nowacki, "BRC audit compliance is now much easier
. The BRC audit need not be a nightmare. The BRC audit touches everyone in a food company. Senior management must report regularly the commitment and continuous improvement; purchasing must demonstrate supplier approval and performance monitoring. Documentation is required and specifications must be accurate and in compliance. Record completion and maintenance are required to demonstrate the effective control of product safety, legality, regulatory compliance, and quality."BRC Audits do not stop there. Corrective and preventative action must be monitored and recorded to insure effectiveness in a timely manner. Traceability is mandated as a system to identify and trace product lots and follow through to all raw materials. Transport of food products must include vehicle unloading, security, and damage prevention as well as traceability.
Where an identity preserved claim is made food companies must carry out a risk assessment of raw materials to specify the integrity of the raw material and compliance with specifications throughout the purchasing and supply chain. Laboratory testing must be in place to verify reliability of test results and there must be control of non-conforming or out of specification products.
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. This mission is in now way mutually exclusive from identifying new profit opportunities. TraceGains, Inc. is the SaaS (software as a service) leader in helping companies reduce costs and improve product quality-automatically. Food & Beverage, Quick Service Restaurant Chains, Life Sciences, Chemicals, and related industries can leverage the Supplier Compliance and Supplier Impact applications to eliminate manual certificate of analysis (CoA) review, automatically reject shipments that are not compliant with critical business rules, and rank-order suppliers based on yield, quality, finished-good profitability, customer feedback, or any other downstream outcome. The company is headquartered near Denver, CO, USA, with direct and partner offices throughout North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia.
TraceGains Inc.
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Marc Simony
Director of Marketing
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TraceGains Accelerates Automates and Simplifies BRC Audits
By: Thomas Cutler