Chapter 8 – System implementation

Rules for guiding food transportation management include the need to combine food safety and food quality practices into a single system, connect various food supply chain members and to manage and measure throughout the entire food supply chain. The current approach known as the “one-up and one-down” approach is a detriment to establishing a food supply chain control system with significant dependencies on both short and long transportation processes. The goal of vertically integrating the supply chain through control over food transportation processes must be established as a prelude to temperature monitoring, traceability and sanitation and training standards. Vicarious liability requires that risk is reduced through the qualification and certification of the transportation supply base. This may be accomplished through a process that combines traceability with food safety and food quality into an integrated food safety and quality transportation system that leads to transporter food safety and quality certification.