USDA Confirms Mad Cow Disease in California

The headlining store of today’s Supermarket News Daily News Update announced a confirmed case of Mad Cow Disease in a dairy cow in California (full article can be found here: http://bit.ly/IbmQiD).  According to a more detailed article published by Food Safety News (full article can be found here http://bit.ly/Jnz4Cs), the animal never presented a risk to the food supply or human health.  However, that won’t stop shopper’s from worrying. 

For grocery stores, it is always better to be prepared for unexpected recalls in their meat departments.  One way to be sure that you have the necessary recall procedures in place is to have meat traceability applications available to your stores.  ADC’s Meat Grind Traceability Manager provides the necessary reporting and tracing capabilities, so that recalls don’t catch a grocer by surprise.  

The Meat Grind Traceability Manager module (a part of the P-Cubed Production Manager Software) is designed to help grocery stores meet USDA Food Safety and Inspection Services (FSIS) rules and regulations.  The module offers traceability and data-logging protection to companies in the case of a ground meat contamination.

The Meat Grind Traceability Manager software module provides a record for all meat that is ground in a meat department. By scanning and recording the different supplies of ground meat, accurate labels are generated to provide easy traceability and reporting to stores if and when a contamination occurs.

In addition to saving time and money compared to manual paper-based tracking systems, the Meat Grind Management Traceability software allows companies to quickly and accurately respond to recalls when they happen. Centrally logging records of every lug of meat that is ground allows for reports to be pulled with ease and can ensure grocery stores are in compliance with FSIS Directives.

With ADC's Meat Grind Traceability Manager, meat cutters can scan the barcodes on primals to record the name of the supplying establishment(s), supplier lot number(s), production date and name of supplied material(s). This information is embedded into the GS1-128 bar-code that is on each label. Therefore, when a contamination occurs, grocery stores can quickly pull the P-Cubed Grinding Log Report to assess what portion of their meat is part of the recall.

To learn more, contact ADC at +1.813.849.1818, or visit our website, www.AppliedDataCorp.com, for more information.  Click here to contact ADC today.