Changing attitudes and needs in the industry towards food quality
As the entire food industry gathered last week in Paris, we joined for Food Ingredients Europe. Many conversations later, there are some interesting takeaways from the general discourse at the event.Something is definitively changing, and an industry known for opaqueness and weak slogans (“my recipe is better than yours, my ingredient is better than yours”), seems to be now talking about collaboration, transparency, and new technologies.
The past year has been “complicated”, as many said. The pressure on global supply chains created by geopolitical conflict, zero-covid policies, and a changing attitude towards globalization, seem to be at the core of these complications. Across the world, we’ve seen increases in raw material prices and lack availability create the need for continuous reformulation, new supplier approvals, and more renegotiations than we care to remember.
Food quality remains the unsurmountable concern. The last thing anyone wants is a claim or a recall, but there are more concerns than before. The industry is worried about food fraud which causes an estimated 50 billion dollars in damages annually, supplier approvals which take too long and with good reason, and the need for fast detection of production errors fast and even faster final product release.
If only there were solutions that could resolve these and other challenges… But there are. And the technology has been around for more than 40 years. Yet, in the world of foodtech, there is too much attention to gimmicks, and too little attention to real solutions. This makes for limited adoption of this technology.
Our challenge at Chemometric Brain on top of continuing to deliver great solutions in our software and services, is to inform and educate the industry on the enormous potential of this technology and its many applications. This is essential to create success not only for ourselves, but also for all our platform stakeholders, affiliate partners, model creators, and users, together with whom we’re enabling the global shift to digitized food quality.
We don’t have a doubt that in the future, quality in global supply chains will be digital. We will exchange digital records, in place of the old CoAs. But in the mean time, being able to make rapid decisions from an end-to-end control of your production, is sufficient to ensure your paper CoA is always going to say what it needs to.
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