Food & Agriculture Compliance Management Software

From the farm gate to the retail shelf, food products accumulate compliance obligations at every handoff. FSMA 204 mandates lot-level traceability for high-risk foods in the United States by January 2026. The EU Deforestation Regulation requires geolocation-verified sourcing proof for soy, palm oil, coffee, cocoa, cattle, rubber, and wood products entering the EU market. BRCGS Food Safety (Issue 9) sets the baseline for global retail partnerships. Organic certifications, Rainforest Alliance standards, Halal and Kosher requirements, and Fair Trade verification each add their own evidence demands. A single shipment of certified organic, deforestation-free coffee bound for both EU and US markets can trigger five or more concurrent compliance requirements.

The food industry's specific challenge is that compliance evidence is generated by different actors at each stage: farmers produce organic certificates and geolocation data, processors generate lot traceability and safety test records, distributors maintain chain-of-custody documentation, and retailers demand consolidated compliance packs at the point of listing. No single participant sees the full evidence chain, which is exactly what both FDA trace-back investigations and EUDR due diligence statements require.

Sustalium stitches together evidence across supply chain stages into product-level compliance records. A coffee lot carries its farm-origin geolocation, organic certificate, Rainforest Alliance verification, and safety test results as linked evidence — not as separate files managed by separate teams. When your retail partner requests compliance documentation, or the FDA issues a trace-back request, the complete evidence chain for that specific lot is accessible from one record. Certifications stacking on the same product (organic + Fair Trade + deforestation-free) share underlying origin data rather than requiring parallel documentation processes.