Late Stage Discoveries on Imported Goods
When Containers Lie: How Importers Can Stop Paying For Other People’s Shortcuts When a container finally reaches an importer’s dock, months of upstream promises and paperwork turn into something brutally simple: what is actually inside those boxes. For both construction materials and food, that moment is where risk becomes real. If the goods are […]
Closing Gaps FSMA 204 Can’t See
FSMA 204: Why Your Own “Private Traceability List” Matters FSMA 204: Why Your Own “Private Traceability List” Matters Modern traceability must see beyond regulatory lists to real‑world ingredient risks. When a common plant becomes a weapon In November, investigators in India said they had foiled a plot to extract ricin from ordinary castor seeds and […]
Critical Tracking Events—The Real Heartbeat of Intelligent Food Traceability
Why Food Traceability Must Go Beyond Compliance Why Food Traceability Must Go Beyond Compliance Traceability in a food supply chain. Modern rules like FSMA 204, SFCR, and FSSAI put Critical Tracking Events (CTEs) at the center of food safety, but treating them only as regulatory checkboxes wastes their real potential. Each CTE—harvest, first packing, processing, […]
What Are We Really Eating?
Quality surprises from imported goods don’t stop at the port gate. In 2025, US importers are still discovering that what finally reaches their own warehouses, retailers, and customers is mis-specified, short-weighted, mislabeled, or unsafe, and too often these problems are only found after products are deep inside the domestic supply chain. Where Problems Are Really […]
The perils of using someone else’s data
Another day. Another lawsuit. So the RIAA has just sued two music generation companies – Suno and Udio. And this is hardly the first of such lawsuits. In the recent past, we’ve seen lawsuits against OpenAI, against Github, and others, and it may well be that the lawsuit avalanche is just getting started. Whatever else […]