Food Traceability.

Food traceability systems, recipe formulation and weighing solutions for food manufacturers. We work with leading food businesses to help improve food safety and quality, with more accurate ingredient usage leading to savings in production costs.

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Electronic Traceability Systems To Support Food Production.

Manage and track the movement and usage of ingredients across your production process using our electronic, weight-based traceability system. Designed to improve both your administration and factory-floor processes, the Stevens Traceability System can handle and report on:

Stock management from goods-in
Recipe formulation and management
Recipe weigh-up and batch mixing
Line and portion control
End of line packaging and despatch
Waste management and waste traceability

Our modular design approach means that you can implement the system that aligns best with your requirements at the time, with no unnecessary costs or investment on modules you don’t need – and the flexibility to upgrade and add modules in the future.

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Free Traceability Assessment Tool.

This diagnostic tool will help determine your requirements and provide you with a report on what you need now from your food traceability system.

Answer just 5 multiple choice questions and get a free report to download for you to print or share digitally with your team.

Try our Traceability Assessment Tool here

Modular Food Traceability System Explained.

We understand that not all businesses have the capital to invest in an end-to-end traceability system, which is why we use a modular design approach that allows you to create a traceability solution that perfectly aligns with your business needs and budget.

Available modules and functionality include:

Inventory management & stock control

Traceability right from the get-go at Goods In with assigned lot numbers
Bakery inventory management software allowing you to receive, move, withdraw and adjust stock as required
First-in-first-out / first-expired-first-out configurations
Location controls and quality attribute questions

Recipe management and recipe formulation

Create recipes in Stevens Management Suite and schedule for production
Ingredients will be weighed based on assigned steps and tolerances
Recipes can have weighed or non-weighed steps and be linked to bulk fillers if needed
Ingredients identifiable by lot numbers to continue traceability in your bakery

Collation and mix traceability across batches

Weighed ingredients can be mixed based on assigned batches
Non-weighed ingredients like water can also be added
Label printed upon completion for batch recognition
Ingredients identified by lot number for traceability

End of line packaging and dispatch

Allocate, pick and dispatch bakery products
Schedule and complete sales orders
Backdates necessary steps to complete sales order
Enables bakery traceability at the final production stages

Average weight and TNE weights tracking

Ideal for adhering Average Weight legislation
Records weights and data of products like upper/lower rejects
Underweights standard deviation, time in batch and number of samples also recorded
Can be used for sample checks or in-line on production

Waste management and traceability

Track waste to reduce waste production and costs
Record line of origin, reason for waste and product type
Informs changes to production to reduce waste
Integration with external waste management companies available

“We understand that not everyone wants or needs a full end-to-end traceability system or has the capital to invest in a system in one go. That’s why we created our modularised traceability system to give you the flexibility to improve your processes in stages that suit you.“

M. Wynburg, Managing Director of Stevens Traceability

Audit Compliance With Food Quality Controls & Reports.

Food traceability is a key component of complying with regulatory bodies across food manufacturing such as BRC, SALSA, Red Tractor, MSC and more. The Stevens Traceability System is designed to not only support, but action your compliance strategies by allowing you to set up mandatory quality assurance steps in your processes, these might include:

Allergen control steps in weigh-up & mixing
Operator questions to verify correct PPE is worn
Ensure washdown procedures are followed

Our digital reporting suite is provided with our software, and gives you and your team access to a library of electronic reports like mass balances and batch summaries. These reports take the data that is automatically recorded by the system to produce up-to-date reports at the click of a button, making audit evidence easy and saving your team hours of administration.

Food Traceability Systems & Weighing Support For Various Industries.

Since our founding in 1844, we have worked with and supported businesses across the UK and Ireland across a variety of food and beverage sectors including the following…

Contact our team to implement electronic food traceability.

If you’re looking to implement paperless food traceability in your business, complete the form to contact our team of experts. A member of our team will then be in touch to discuss your requirements and determine the most suitable traceability solution for the needs and budget of your food business.

The Stevens Traceability System is designed to support the following:

Complete, electronic traceability via unique identifiers
Cost-effective scalability with a modular design approach
Tailored precision to your weighing and quality requirements
Innovation and continuous improvement

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Food Traceability FAQs.

Is food traceability required by law?Bradley2024-08-28T09:52:46+01:00

Is food traceability required by law?

In the UK, retailers and caterers selling directly to the final customer are not legally required to keep traceability records for their sales.

With that said, for other food businesses, food manufacturing plants, all traceability requirements must be followed, including maintaining traceability records.

How do you create a food traceability record?Bradley2024-08-28T09:50:37+01:00

How do you create a food traceability record?

The key aspect of creating a food traceability record is to store relevant data to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. Here’s a concise list of what you need to do to create a food traceability record:

Identify the ingredients and or/food products you will track which will help to determine the extent of your traceability system.
Identify the specific points in the supply or food production chain where the data needs to be recorded.
Determine how you will log the records. This could be in hard copy or digital form, like with the Stevens Traceability System.
Have an expiration date for your records and determine how long you intend to keep them. Regulatory requirements usually specify a minimum of 12 months after the product’s shelf life. With that said, there can also be additional legal requirements for other goods. For this reason, we advise you to keep your records for a minimum of 2 years.

One final point on this is under no circumstances should you duplicate and disregard the original records – they must be maintained as original whether that be on paper or in a digital format. By installing the Stevens Traceability System, you don’t need to worry about this. Providing enhanced traceability through capturing and storing data at every stage of production, your records are automatically stored digitally and can be accessed easily.

What is traceability in the food supply chain?Bradley2024-08-28T09:47:45+01:00

What is traceability in the food supply chain?

Traceability in the food supply chain means tracing food from the point at which it’s on sale, all the way back to the point of origin, where it was in its most raw form.

What is traceability in food safety?Bradley2024-08-28T09:45:58+01:00

What is traceability in food safety?

Traceability in food safety is the means of tracking both a food’s journey from one point to another and tracing the processes it undergoes in a food production facility. On a wider scale, it could be from the point of origin, like a farm, right through all the processes it undergoes to arrive at your plate in one form or another.

Food traceability is essential because it ensures where your food comes from and how it’s made. Knowing all the processes and regulations a particular food has to go through before it arrives in your facility helps ensure that it is safe to consume. In other words, traceability gives you transparency of a particular food’s journey so it can be deemed safe to eat.

Why is food traceability important?Bradley2024-08-28T09:44:44+01:00

Why is food traceability important?

Food traceability is important because you provide reassurance to both suppliers and customers of your products by preventing contamination. This, in turn, increases customer loyalty and encourages a positive reputation of your brand.

The system allows you to swiftly remove them once identified, minimising the risks to your customers, while simultaneously instilling trust and building a loyal customer base.

A key part of food traceability is keeping sufficient records, which helps you and your business in the long run. An electronic traceability system like the Stevens Traceability System provides enhanced traceability by capturing and storing data at every stage of production. This is helpful

because the more detailed and meticulous the records are, the easier it will be to successfully withdraw goods or carry out a product recall if required. What’s more, regulations like the BRC standard require an inspection of your traceability records as part of the assessment process.

Essentially, a traceability system ensures food quality, safety, and compliance with food standard regulations like the BRC standard.

What is a traceability system in the food industry?Bradley2024-08-28T09:42:23+01:00

What is a traceability system in the food industry?

A traceability system in the food industry is an integrated system that tracks ingredients across processes, businesses and facilities. This can involve farm-to-fork traceability where ingredients are tracked from their point of origin, through processing within a factory or other food production facilities and then to product suppliers and finally finishing at it’s last destination in the customer’s hands.

Other food traceability systems involve tracking ingredients within a specific food production facility, such as a bakery, from the moment of goods-in to the resulting product, like a loaf of bread.