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SupplySide West will be even bigger this year because show organizer, Informa Markets, has expanded to include Food ingredients North America (FiNA). Whether you’re an exhibitor or an attendee just walking the show, it can be an overwhelming...

Instances of food contamination and allergic reactions have become all too commonplace at a time when the technology and regulations put in place to prevent them have never been more robust. 

Historically, when disruption threatens an industry, it’s not an ambush. There are always warning signs.

TraceGains staff attended the 12^th annual NLS Food Innovation Summit last week in Indian Wells, California, and returned home with some interesting tidbits.

Dairy, a longtime staple of the country’s ag economy, is an industry struggling to find its way amid a sea of change. This past year didn’t make things any easier.

In 2016, I had the chance to take a Preventive Controls Qualified Individual course to familiarize myself with the requirements under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). It was an overwhelming amount of information for this non-scientist to...

Millennials are now the driving influence in today’s marketplace since Baby Boomers started leaving the workforce in droves.

At TraceGains, we know the job isn’t done until our customers have their data. Just selling software doesn’t cut it. And while we have an excellent customer success team, our focus on supplier success is equally intense. Because, if our...

As technology has advanced and populations have expanded, so has the supply chain that produces food, beverages, and ingredients worldwide. That growth has been accelerating exponentially over the last two decades.

After years of silence, tariffs came out of retirement last year when President Trump levied them against trade allies and rivals alike. This year, Trump launched this latest global trade war with 25 percent tariffs on all steel imports and a 10...