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TTB

Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau · alcohol and tobacco tax and trade bureau

TL;DR

U.S. Treasury bureau that regulates breweries, distilleries, wineries and importers — formula approval, labeling (COLA) and federal excise tax.

TTB is the federal regulator for alcohol beverage producers in the U.S. It owns formula approval, label approval (COLA), production and inventory records, and the excise-tax program. Breweries operate under 27 CFR Part 25, distilled spirits plants under Part 19, and wineries under Part 24. TTB inspections center on whether every gallon you produced reconciles down to a taxpaid removal, and whether your labels and formulas match what TTB approved.

Most TTB findings come from incomplete daily production records, late or wrong monthly reports (BROP, DSP reports), and labels in use that don't match an active COLA. Modern producers replace paper logs with signed digital production records so the TTB walk-through is a query, not a binder hunt.

Regulatory anchors
  • 27 CFR 19
  • 27 CFR 24
  • 27 CFR 25
Industries that live with this
Food Processing
How V5 handles it
MES — operator execution that writes its own batch record.
V5’s MES isn’t a dashboard — it’s the kiosk in the operator’s hands. Every action is signed, in sequence, with the device evidence already attached.
eBMR / eDHR — the batch record writes itself.
When the master is locked and the operator works on the kiosk, the batch record is no longer something to assemble — it’s something to render.
Lot traceability — recall in minutes, not weeks.
V5 captures the lot link at every point of consumption, so the trace is a query — not a war room.
Document control with hard kiosk-level training enforcement.
Versioned SOPs are only useful if operators are actually trained on the current version. V5 enforces it at the kiosk.
Related terms
COLAHACCP
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