FDA Actions on New Bioterrorism Legislation: December 9, 2004. The events of September 11, 2001 highlighted the need to enhance the security of the U.S. Food Supply. Congress responded by passing the Bioterrorism Act of 2002. Section 306 specifically applies to companies who manufacture or process food. On December 9, 2004, the FDA published the final rule implementing Section 306 of the Bioterrorism Act. For more information see the FDA's Fact Sheet: http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/fsbtac23.html

NOTE: Food MC exceeds the U.S. government traceability requirements. Labor intensive tracking reports that used to take hours or even days are completed in minutes.

Food Manufacturing Conductor™ Benefits and Features

Food MC Supports Quality Initiatives and Governmental Compliance

Provides real-time data, supporting the one-up one-down traceability requirements of Section 306 of the Bioterrorism Act

Provides real-time data, supporting recalls, mock recalls, and food safety audits

Provides a complete real-time audit trail of who worked on what when and QC results, including in process inspection and final inspection records

Tracks by lot number all raw material ingredients, WIP, and finished goods. Bar-coding is fully supported

Provides the tools to make your ISO certification faster and easier, saving money

Provides complete cradle to grave reporting - forward and backward from one screen

Food MC is Production Floor Friendly

Food MC has a simple user-friendly interface designed to keep your workers productive

Food MC gives authorized users access to production formulations and process specifications on the production floor

Bar-coding is fully supported and provides fast and accurate employee time tracking and inventory movement

Food MC optionally replaces all paper on the production floor

Food MC integrates with your accounting, ERP, and scheduling systems eliminating duplicate data entry, allowing fewer support staff to process higher volumes

Food MC can export time and attendance information to payroll

Food MC is fully customizable to fit the way you do business

Food MC manages your production floor

Provides real-time visibility of all production floor activity

Costing: captures raw material, WIP, finished good, and scrap costs, including labor

Tracks employee time by work center, by job or sales orders.

Provides on-line / real-time production management data for optimal scheduling

Tracks location, usage and maintenance of equipment including expendables

Provides visibility to manage reprocessing and scrap

Allows batch sizes of one (1) to track partial moves

Provides data for Theory of Constraints optimization. WIP reports identify constraints for better scheduling

Food MC can ship directly from the production floor automatically generating invoices for the front office

Additionally

Food MC is scalable allowing your company to grow without adding costly overhead

Food MC can interface with shipping manifest and point-of-sale solutions

Give better customer service with real-time data

Runs on existing technology, Windows NT/95/and higher