Food For Thought: Comply or Die

Posted on 21 Aug 2008 by The Manufacturer

Nick Turnbull, EMEA director of sales for Marathon Technology looks at one of the biggest challenges currently facing IT within the food industry supply chain. He argues that manufacturers need to ensure their IT systems are geared up to cope with round the clock monitoring that is necessary to keep the regulators away.

The past 15 years has seen a flood of increasingly tight regulatory measures imposed on the food and beverage industry, spurred on by a series of public-facing food scandals and health scares. Understandably, the industry has now become one of the most closely monitored and heavily regulated sectors in the UK. If consumers do not…

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