Trustwell’s 2023: Our Year in Review

With 2023 formally over and all eyes on 2024, we’re taking one final have a look at Trustwell’s prime achievements, notable bulletins, and thought leaders’ insights from this previous yr. With every thing we did final yr throughout our merchandise, companies, and inside the {industry}, we’re proud to current our year-in-review:

2023: By the Numbers

Once we began the yr, the meals {industry} knew us as two pioneers— FoodLogiQ and ESHA Analysis. By February, we launched ourselves as one unified powerhouse: Trustwell.

This strategic merger has enabled us to supply Trustwell Join, a sturdy platform that merges six synergistic instruments that assist present higher operational efficiencies and transparency all through the complete meals provide chain. As we speak, Trustwell Join helps over 2,500 corporations globally — from meals and complement producers and grocery retailers to supply packers and fashionable restaurant chains.

Within the first yr below our new model umbrella, we:

Processed no less than $3 Million in incident reimbursements
Recorded 38.5 Million crucial monitoring occasions (CTEs)
For over 120K companions with greater than 95K provider places
And added almost 280K paperwork alongside the best way.

With the FSMA 204 deadline looming and full implementation required by January 20, 2026, we’re proud to report metrics like these as they function a testomony to our proactive help for our clients, facilitating their FSMA 204 compliance journey.

New 12 months, New Title, New Look — Similar Trusted Experience

Our greatest announcement got here in early 2023 after we (re)launched ourselves with a full rebrand as Trustwell. By August 2023, we had a brand new house on-line after we launched our new web site to replicate our up to date look and enhance the expertise guests have after they cease by. 

Our mission? To vary the meals {industry}. Our promise? To set a brand new commonplace for meals security, high quality, and product transparency throughout the complete provide chain. Our driving objective is to be a catalyst for constructive and impactful change within the meals {industry}. We’re devoted to elevating meals security, high quality, and product transparency — from recipe improvement to recall administration.

Our new identify displays the essence of our mission, as articulated by our CEO, Stephen Bruce, “[It] embodies essentially the most crucial aspect inside the meals {industry}, belief; the belief our clients set up with their shoppers and the belief our clients have in our software program to extend transparency and mitigate model threat of their provide chains.”

Important Instruments — Enhanced

Greater than only a facelift, our evolution is rooted in many years of information experience and a complete suite of high quality and compliance instruments from ESHA Analysis & FoodLogiQ. This basis has paved the best way for our formidable reinvention because the meals {industry}’s most trusted accomplice.

Trustwell Join is the end result of this legacy, a platform that not solely retains the {industry} commonplace but additionally introduces modern capabilities. It is a testomony to our enduring heritage as {industry} forerunners, with a mixed historical past spanning over fifty years, throughout which Genesis and FoodLogiQ have supplied key information, insights, and instruments to our valued companions. Now, we’re constructing all of it higher.

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Re-launch of Genesis Meals

In Might 2023, Trustwell unveiled the superior Genesis Meals, evolving from our benchmark Genesis R&D Meals Basic software program. This next-generation product guarantees to remodel recipe formulation and vitamin labeling. Notable options launched in 2023 embody:

Recipe and Ingredient Versioning

Genesis Meals’ Versioning streamlines recipe administration, guaranteeing FDA compliance with locked-in accepted variations and editable drafts for updates. Preserve correct, traceable data with ease, and maintain your improvement course of organized and compliant.

Ingredient Assertion Builder

Genesis Meals introduces a strong Ingredient Assertion Builder, designed for flexibility in meals labeling. Customers can increase detailed lists, merge related substances, and simplify entries to swimsuit various product wants. This device adapts to regulatory necessities and enhances transparency from manufacturing to level of sale, optimizing ingredient illustration for meals companies.

Localization

Genesis Meals is breaking down language obstacles and catering to our various clientele with its newest replace. We have gone multilingual, providing full localization in English, French, and German, guaranteeing that you could navigate our utility within the language that fits you greatest.

FoodLogiQ Releases Highlights

All through 2023, our quarterly FoodLogiQ updates introduced expanded integrations, reporting enhancements, and value developments, considerably elevating the platform’s capabilities. Core performance and have enhancements embody:

Improved Processes: A lot Much less Guide, Means Extra Environment friendly

2023 opened an entire new world of widgets for FoodLogiQ clients, lots of which eradicated handbook information entry or made it simpler to do when it’s obligatory. Others expanded configuration and customization capabilities to satisfy buyer wants. 

Provider administration acquired simpler with an Open To-Dos widget for onboarding updates, job group, and excellent necessities delivered at your fingertips. Doc administration did, too with the addition of simplified, versatile advert hoc doc requests.

Traceability Options for FSMA 204 (and Past)

With FSMA 204 compliance required by January 2026, we centered on traceability enhancements, aligning with GS1 International Information Fashions and FSMA 204 requirements. Past gathering insights, our new options like Traceability Information Accuracy Warnings and Recall widgets empower proactive measures, complemented by important upgrades to our Recall capabilities, guaranteeing immediate and exact actions throughout crucial conditions.

A Raised Bar for Information Assortment, Visualization, and Evaluation

In 2023, we raised the bar for provide chain information assortment, visualization, and evaluation. Enhancements in FoodLogiQ Recall linked occasions and incidents seamlessly, whereas the FoodLogiQ Dashboard supplied intuitive, real-time views and provider evaluation statuses. With complete information assortment, we enabled deeper analyses and clearer representations, all whereas honing our information dealing with—from customizable options to superior monitoring instruments—reaffirming our dedication to pioneering meals security improvements alongside our clients.

Studying & Thought Management in 2023

That dedication will lengthen past 2023, however it was actually a ‘north star’ for Trustwell’s studying and content material improvement technique final yr. The yr started with the announcement of serious modifications to the regulatory panorama and operators inside it and much more on the horizon, together with, in fact, FSMA 204 compliance. We noticed these modifications as a chance to offer studying and management assets to meals {industry} leaders seeking to put together for and rise to those challenges.

Sources for Regulatory Change

We started by increasing our skilled companies choices in March to incorporate help for a regulatory panorama that’s shifting quickly and displaying no indicators of slowing down. Now, along with the meals, vitamin, and ingredient labeling session companies we provide, leaders can accomplice with Trustwell to higher perceive traceability, assess their present infrastructure, and undertake new methods for compliance in time. 

The formation of our FSMA 204 Workgroup in August allowed us to redouble our dedication to implementing buyer suggestions. Open to all of our clients, these quarterly periods are hosted by {industry} vet and Trustwell’s VP of Provide Chain Technique & Insights, Julie McGill. This neighborhood studying area connects our clients on to {industry} specialists and key stakeholders inside Trustwell to ask questions, share their views, and entry a rising library of supplemental assets and supplies to help traceability initiatives inside their organizations.

We’ve additionally labored to construct, keep, and increase a rising library of readiness assets for all {industry} gamers — whether or not they accomplice with Trustwell or not. Anybody can flip — and return to — for experience and perception on the street to January 2026, together with free FSMA seek the advice of calls and a course catalog of on-demand regulatory seminars.

Trusted Thought Management 

All through 2023, Trustwell bolstered its popularity for offering industry-leading experience with the publication of seminal assets, participation in world conferences, and episodes of our new “bite-sized” podcast, Meals Tech Speak: Provide Chain Insights From Fark to Fork. All year long, we:

Launched our 2023 State of Meals Traceability Report in March, which included information from a survey of almost 200 meals {industry} professionals, their insights, and techniques for compliance
Attended the FDA’s public assembly in September, Modernizing FDA Remembers Listening Session, which featured feedback from Katy Jones and Julie McGill.
Launched a brand new podcast, Meals Tech Speak with Trustwell, that includes quick, impactful conversations with visitor leaders from throughout the meals and complement {industry}.
Attended IFT First, the annual convention hosted by The Institute of Meals Technologists, the place Julie McGill led two periods: The right way to Put together for FSMA 204 Compliance: Views for Small and Medium-Sized Corporations and What Do All Professions Inside the Science of Meals Must Know About Traceability and FSMA Part 204 Implications?
Served up impactful {industry} insights throughout our inaugural Trustwell reCONNECT 2023 with conversations from {industry} leaders like Dr. Darin Detwiler, LP.D., Invoice Marler, Tia Glave, Jill Stuber, Stephen Statler, Jeanne Duckett, Sara Bratager, and extra!
Partnered with Specright providing Genesis clients leveraging the Specright platform the power to seamlessly switch ingredient and recipe information between methods and streamline updates to ingredient specs.
Celebrated Katy Jones’ inclusion in GS1’s Retail and Grocery Initiative Govt Management Committee.

The 12 months Forward: What’s in Retailer for 2024

2023 was an enormous yr — for the meals {industry}, for Trustwell, and for the purchasers we serve. That simply leaves one query: what’s in retailer for 2024?

Now we have loads to sit up for. Between bettering our merchandise, launching new companies, and providing free instructional assets, we’re already rolling our sleeves up and on the point of roll out much more of what our companions have come to depend on for a protected, streamlined, and profitable recipe-to-recall course of.

We’re kicking issues off with the primary webinar of the yr, Navigating the Way forward for Meals Security: FSMA 204 Insights and the FDA’s Roadmap for 2024, that includes Angela Fields of the FDA. Enroll now to eavesdrop on her dialog with our personal Julie McGill, which is bound to be frank and stuffed with the data it’s essential jump-start traceability initiatives in 2024.

And naturally, we’re bringing reCONNECT again for an additional yr in 2024. Don’t wish to miss any of it? We don’t blame you! Keep within the know whenever you subscribe to updates from Trustwell, or comply with us on LinkedIn to be part of the dialog in 2024.