Understanding traceability in the food supply chain
A guidance document on the best practices in food traceability
Tejas Bhatt is the director of the Global Food Traceability Center at the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT). He directs IFT’s science and policy initiatives related to food traceability. He was the IFT lead on the food product tracing pilots conducted for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as mandated by the by Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). Prior to joining IFT, he was a research associate at the Purdue Homeland Security Institute. Bhatt has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science and food science from Purdue University and is a certified food scientist. He has written widely in industry publications and lectured at numerous conferences on food safety. He is scheduled to speak June 17 at the Global Pouch Forum.
A major project for the center has been a guidance document on best practices in food traceability for bakery, dairy, meat and poultry, processed foods, produce, and seafood. It appeared in the September 2014 issue of Comprehensive Reviews in Food Sciences and Food Safety and may be accessed here.