GS1 Standards for Food Traceability Online Certificate Course

Enhance your food safety, supply chain visibility and operational efficiencies

Are you looking for expert guidance on establishing or enhancing your traceability program? The GS1 Standards for Food Traceability Certificate Course offers 11 on-demand learning modules to help you understand:

The importance of globally unique identification of products and locations – as the foundation of effective traceability
How to implement case-level traceability with the use of GS1-128 barcodes
What key data elements (KDEs) need to be captured and shared at critical tracking events (CTEs)

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Who Should Sign Up

U.S. fresh foods supply chain professionals who are involved in implementing traceability programs that improve product visibility and enhance food safety. All fresh food trading partners, from point of origin to point of consumption, can benefit from the material in this course. In addition, this course may also be useful to exporters and importers in the U.S. fresh foods market.

This course will help you learn:

The fundamentals of improving product visibility from source to consumption
How to enhance food safety by leveraging unique product identification for quick and precise recalls
What tools and resources are available to help you enable supply chain visibility

Course Outline

The Traceability Online Certificate Course includes:

Overview of GS1 Standards
Standards in Fresh Foods
Application of unique product identification in various fresh food categories
Use and benefits of Identify, Capture and Share in traceability
GS1 Standards for Supply Chain Traceability
Critical Tracking Events (CTEs) and Key Data Elements (KDEs)
Best practices for establishing and enhancing effective traceability programs
Available tools and resources to support traceability implementations

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Cost

$450

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Resources

Getting Started with GS1-128 Barcodes in Foodservice — Quick start guide for using GS1-128 barcodes on cases and pallets
Tyson Foods Case Study — Putting customers and consumers first by leveraging GS1 Standards for stability and velocity
Implementation Roadmap for GS1-128 Barcodes on Retail Grocery Cases — Guidance for implementing case-level traceability with GS1-128 barcodes
Standards in Action: Fresh Food — Improving product information, traceability, and operational efficiencies
Discovery App: GS1 Standards in Fresh Foods — Understand the expectations of today’s consumers

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