The 2014 Annual TraceGains’ Food Safety & Quality Assurance (FSQA) Professional Survey polled professionals from food manufacturing, processing, and distribution in the US, which revealed food safety and quality challenges.
The survey has found that audit readiness is deemed critical or very important.
About 75% of respondents indicated access to supplier documentation and compliance of incoming ingredients to specifications is either critical or very important to rapidly and successfully pass audits.
Rapidly changing and voluminous new food safety regulations and the potentially high cost of noncompliance, makes audit preparation increasingly important.
Audit readiness was ranked as high importance by survey respondents.
The importance of a reliable supplier, compliance, and regulatory document management system becomes essential as food manufacturers increase their number of global and domestic suppliers.
About 87% of survey respondents identified that a document management system is a critical requirement to create one version of data truth both internally and externally.
