Produce Packing🇺🇸United States·

From the field to the case, every lot has a name and a story.

Built for the FSMA Produce Safety Rule and FSMA 204 Food Traceability.

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Built around your regulators

The codes you're accountable to — at the data layer.

FSMA Produce Safety Rule
21 CFR Part 112
FSMA Section 204
Food Traceability Rule (FTL)
PrimusGFS / GlobalG.A.P.
Buyer-required GFSI schemes
USDA AMS
Country-of-origin labeling
How V5 maps to your floor

Five steps from receive to release — with the regulator on the hook at the end.

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A day in the life

From login to release — no end-of-shift paperwork.

What the auditor receives
The record assembles itself as the operator works — no end-of-shift paperwork project.
FSMA 204 / PSRPRODUCE PACKING FLOW (PTI + Cold Chain)
KDE CAPTURED
  • field / lot
  • harvest date
  • grower
  • BoL
1
FIELD RECEIVE
KDE CAPTURED
  • wash batch
  • sanitizer ppm
  • temp
  • operator
2
WASH / SANITIZE
KDE CAPTURED
  • grade
  • rejects
  • lot
  • operator
3
SORT & GRADE
KDE CAPTURED
  • pack type
  • lot
  • count
  • PTI label
4
PACK
KDE CAPTURED
  • cooler id
  • temp
  • duration
  • log
5
COOL CHAIN
KDE CAPTURED
  • GTIN / PTI
  • lot
  • ship date
  • carrier
6
SHIP + PTI
PHYSICAL EVENT INFORMATION EVENT
KDE = the minimum data fields required to trace the lot through this step. Captured automatically as the operator works.
FSMA 204 / PSRCOMPLIANT· PTI LABELS· COLD CHAIN VERIFIED
TRACE IT. TRUST IT.
  1. 05:30·step 01
    Field receive

    Truck arrives. Grower lot, harvest date, field block, cooler temp captured at the dock — every KDE for CTE-1.

    FSMA 204 / Produce Rule
  2. 06:00·step 02
    Wash + sanitation

    Wash water sanitiser ppm logged automatically. Out-of-spec → line pauses and a hold goes on the lot in the wash.

  3. 08:00·step 03
    Pack house

    Cases scanned as they're built. Each case inherits the input grower lot — no clipboard needed.

  4. 11:00·step 04
    Label + COO

    Country-of-origin and PLU printed on every case. Master label proof matches the customer's brief.

  5. 13:00·step 05
    Ship

    Loader scans cases onto the trailer with carrier + temp set point. Bill of lading stamped with the traceability lot code.

  6. End of day·step 06
    FSMA 204 export

    One click → today's CTEs and KDEs exported in the FDA's preferred format. Audit = a download, not a project.

    FSMA 204
Speaking your language

The terms your auditor uses

V5's UI uses these names for produce packing workspaces — no cross-industry jargon to translate.
CTE / KDE
Critical Tracking Event + Key Data Element — what FSMA 204 requires you to capture.
TLC
Traceability Lot Code — the unique code that follows the produce lot through the supply chain.
PMA / PTI
Produce Marketing Association + Produce Traceability Initiative — the case-label standard most retailers expect.
Cooler chain
Continuous cold-chain log from field to dock — required by Produce Rule.
MRL
Maximum Residue Limit — pesticide residue ceiling that varies by destination market.
Field block
Specific area of a farm a lot was harvested from — needed for trace-back.
What keeps you up at night

Sound familiar? We built this for you.

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Grower lot, harvest date, and field code are recorded three times — and they don't match.

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Ag water and sanitation records live in a different binder from the pack record.

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Buyer requests a recall; identifying which retailers got which grower-lots takes a day.

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PACA and country-of-origin labeling get audited and the records don't tie to the pack.

Self-Building Compliance Records

The record assembles itself as the work happens.

No paperwork project at end of shift. No reconstruction at audit time. The evidence IS the workflow.

Single grower-lot record

Grower, field, harvest crew, water test reference — all captured at receiving and carried through pack.

FSMA 204 sortable export

FTL CTEs export to the FDA's required spreadsheet format in seconds.

Buyer-direct genealogy

From a case scanned at retail, walk back to grower lot in one click.

Water + sanitation in the record

Pre-harvest and pack-house inspections ride with the lot, not in a separate binder.

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