Membership Benefits
Through media reports and word of mouth, the food industry is becoming more aware of the significant increase in requirements for food documents both nationally and internationally. These mounting requirements are causing burdensome documentation problems. That's what this website is all about - solving problems - with FoodCertificates.org.
The Honorable Kelly Lewis, Esq., President & CEO of the Technology Council of Central Pennsylvania, has touted the benefits that FoodCertificates.org delivers to the food industry. Lewis said, “Everyday, we work with technology leaders that are deploying solutions to increase efficiency, reduce costs and protect our industries, and FoodCertificates.org has a great solution that helps every agriculture and food manufacturing business in the state and nation.” He continued, “The services FoodCertificates.org provides are vitally important. Because of the obvious savings of time, resources and headaches, I encourage every agriculture and food manufacturing operation to see how FoodCertificates.org can help their operations."
Benefits
- Simplifies documentation nightmares
- Streamlines the current costly and inefficient process
- Allows instant access to certificates from one source
- Provides international availability 24/7
- Prevents delays in shipping, processing and purchasing
- Provides Import/Export benefits
- Offers savings throughout the food chain for customers and vendors
- Facilitates storage of data by providing electronic document archiving
- Protects data with passwords
- Allows easy start-up, with no software to purchase
- Offers easy-to-use site navigation
Features
Features of FoodCertificates.org include the ability to:
- quickly search our library for an extensive listing of documents
- search for documents based on document content or supplier name
- search for and open documents in common Windows applications
Efficiency
The FoodCertificate.org website replaces the current burdensome and costly manual system of obtaining and supplying food industry documents. Often, an upcoming audit prompts the request for the certifications, resulting in an immediate need for the documents. The requestor must rely upon the response time of the manufacturer to provide the needed documents, but there are sometimes delays of several weeks while the information is located and faxed to them. With increasing numbers of documents and tighter time constraints being required in the food industry by both private sector and government agencies, additional costly employees and large amounts of time would be needed to fulfill these mounting requests. the solution lies with the easy, rapid and affordable FoodCertificates.org website.
New Regulations
By greatly simplifying the storage and dissemination of food industry documents, FoodCertificates.org will help to bring the food industry closer to complying with new federal regulations such as those set forth in Title III, Section 306 of The Public Health and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002 (PL 107-188), more commonly known in the industry as The Bioterrorism Act. According to this ruling, new requirements governing the access and retention of food industry documents must be adhered to by all businesses covered by the rule, and those who do not comply may be subject to civil and/or criminal charges (source: www.fda.gov).
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