In Part 1 of this series, published in the February/March 2023 issue of Food Safety Magazine, we reported on the reaction we received to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) Final Food Traceability Rule that was released late last year.

We learned that food processors were certainly aware of the new Rule, but many were not sure how they would be affected by it. Roughly one-third of the people we heard from said that they produced products on the Food Traceability List (FTL) and, therefore, would be directly affected by the requirements of the Rule. We also found out that as many as two-thirds of those we heard from suggested that being directly affected by the Rule ultimately may not matter much, as they expect that the requirements of the Rule will come to apply to other foods not on the FTL.