Under FSMA 204, businesses must be able to quickly provide detailed records for specific high-risk foods on the Food Traceability List to help trace contamination. While the grocery industry hasn’t been shy about calling for regulatory changes to make food traceability requirements less burdensome, it is also making progress in pushing suppliers to get compliance-ready. For food retailers, requiring suppliers to meet traceability requirements for all foods makes data collection easy and consistent, according to Repositrak, noting that the FSMA 204 requirements have become a “baseline” to which most retailers and wholesalers are adding unique traceability requirements. Some suppliers haven’t started working on traceability requirements because of the delayed federal compliance deadline or because their food products aren’t on the Food Traceability List. Repositrak has been working through traceability requirements with suppliers over the past several months.