TraceGains Reveals Current State of Food Safety & Quality Assurance

DENVER - April 7, 2015 - PRLog -- The 2015 Annual TraceGains Food Safety & Quality Assurance (FSQA) Professional Survey polled professionals from food manufacturing, processing, and distribution. The purpose of the survey was to gain insight into the current state of the FSQA profession.

This year’s survey included 306 participants, 80% of whom indicated food safety, compliance or regulatory affairs as their primary job function. Additionally, 49% of participants identified themselves as Manager, while another 33% identified as Director or above.

Key findings from the survey include identification of:

·          - The top priorities for FSQA professionals in 2015

·          - Top food safety and quality assurance challenges

·          - FSQA professionals’ predictions for the food supply chain in 2015

To access the complete survey results and download the 2015 Current State of FSQA Infographic, visit http://www.tracegains.com/blog/2015-tracegains-food-safety-and-quality-assurance-survey-results.

TraceGains (www.tracegains.com) provides food and ingredient manufacturers and brokers with a cloud-based, supplier, compliance, and regulatory document management solution for the food supply chain that automates the management of supplier risk, data, and documentation, making companies 365 Audit Ready™.

TraceGains’ SaaS solution works with in-house systems such as quality management systems (QMS), enterprise resource planning (ERP), and product life-cycle management (PLM), to close the loop on upstream risk.  This solution provides collaborative supplier management, and eases compliance with the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), and internal business compliance requirements including hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP).

TraceGains not only digitizes incoming supplier documents, making them easily searchable, but also extracts critical data and analyzes them against customer-specific business and compliance rules, alerting stakeholders to any non-compliance. For more information or to schedule a free demo, visit http://www.tracegains.com.