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Turning Government Regulations into ERP Marketing Opportunities

When the Bioterrorism Act was enacted four years ago, few ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) vendors recognized the marketing opportunity. All food manufacturers must meet compliance by the end of 2006. All ERP software systems are not equipped to address the functionality the regulation requires.

The Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002 (the Bioterrorism Act) directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to issue final regulations that establish requirements regarding the establishment and maintenance, for not longer than two years, of records by persons (excluding farms, restaurants and certain others) who manufacture, process, pack, transport, distribute, receive, hold, or import food. The records that must be kept by these regulations are those that are needed by the Secretary for inspection to allow the Secretary to identify the immediate previous sources and immediate subsequent recipients of food, including its packaging, in order to address credible threats of serious adverse health consequences or death to humans or animals. This regulation implements the record keeping authority in the Bioterrorism Act.

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