exceptionally good surfactant functionality.” For an example of its use in applications across confection and bakery, for a bread muffin doughnut, Ryoto Sugar Esters strengthen dough and increase mechanical resistance. It also increases water absorption capacity at the kneading stage, increases volume after baking, softens the crumb and makes uniform cavities. It maintains the softness of the crumb after baking and lengthens the shelf life and maintains the volume after baking and improves the overall texture. For chocolate, the ingredient improves ganache quality, controls the rate of crystallisation, aids in viscosity control for suitable coating properties, improves heat resistance, prevents sugar blooming and thickening and improves the snapping property.
Fireside chats on regulation Over on the Fireside chats, Julie McGill, Vice President of Supply Chain Strategy & Insights at Trustwell and Meghan Murphy, Manager of the Regulatory Team in Product at Trustwell, tackled the topic on regulatory and trading partner requirements that can overwhelm even the most well-seasoned organisations. Providing insights on how managing these processes on a single platform can help you not only address regulatory requirements, but also enhance operations, and break down the silos, providing visibility and transparency inside your organisation, across supply chains and ultimately with consumers. Megan Murphy said: “starting with a good resource or a good platform, but then actually adapting protocol so talking within your departments, your company and your legal department, and making sure you’re doing what you say you’re doing but also keeping track and documenting within the rules so everyone is consistent across the organisation.” The FDA final rule on Requirements for Additional Traceability Records for Certain Foods (Food Traceability Final Rule), coming into place in January 2026, establishes traceability recordkeeping requirements, beyond those in existing regulations, for persons who manufacture, process, pack, or hold foods included on the Food Traceability List (FTL). Julie McGill explained that the FDA has identified a list of food items as “high risk”, it’s called the food traceability list. There’s enhanced record keeping at the lot level. “And that’s where we get into that data piece again, data that is so very important,” Julie reiterated. “The other piece is, depending on where you sit in the supply chain, you might be the source of that traceability data or you might be someone who has to capture
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and pass that data along. And when you create something new you have to assign new lot codes and share that with the folks that receive those food items. And that for many, it’s not that you don’t have the data, it’s that the data is not all in one place.” “On the traceability side of our platform, we are centralising that data, monitoring it and making sure that it is compliant and that you
do have all those attributes, because as part of this rule, if there is an investigation and the FDA request data from your organisation, you have 24 hours to present that within a sortable spreadsheet. Sometimes, that’s not so much of a big deal, it’s a couple of items or it’s a week’s worth of data; but if it is month’s worth of data and lots of products that are affected in your organisation - not only pulling the data but going through the process of reviewing it and making sure you’ve got sign off before you hand it off to the FDA, you want to make sure that you understand ‘what do I have today? What are the gaps? And how are we going to prepare for the rule?’”
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