Case Study: Village Farms achieves real-time supplier compliance to FDA FSVP and retailer requirements with TraQtion

TraQtion Helps Greenhouse Producer Manage Supplier Compliance to the FDA FSVP and Multiple Buyer Secondary Requirements

Village Farms, one of North America’s largest greenhouse producers and distributors of tomatoes, bell peppers and cucumbers, needed a better way to manage more than 100 supplemental suppliers supplying 20+ retailers. The company sought a centralized solution to quickly match suppliers to multiple retailer secondary requirements in real time and to ensure compliance with the FDA’s proposed FSVP rule, so Village Farms engaged TraQtion’s quality and compliance software.

TraQtion deployed an online compliance engine, supplier portals, visual red/amber/green status indicators, dashboards and automated alerts to track certifications and retailer-specific requirements. The solution delivered centralized, up‑to‑date supplier data, reduced mock‑recall supplier retrieval from three days to 30 minutes, removed the need for four people to manually update reports, and delivered what Village Farms cites as a 100% return on investment.

Village Farms

Michael Bledsoe

Senior Vice President of Food Safety and Scientific & Regulatory Affairs