In food and beverage, unverified suppliers aren't just a supply chain problem — they're a brand risk, a safety risk, and increasingly, a regulatory violation. VDSAI gives F&B supply chain teams continuous supplier verification and authenticated data exchange, so you know who's in your supply chain and can prove it.
RegisterA software bug inconveniences users. A contaminated ingredient can kill people — and bankrupt brands. The average food recall costs $10 million in direct expenses alone, with severe cases erasing more than $100 million in shareholder value within days. And the majority of recall root causes trace back to the same place: a supplier that wasn't who they said they were, or data that couldn't be traced back to its source.
Between 2019 and 2022, FDA inspected more than 1,600 food importers for Foreign Supplier Verification Program compliance. Only 1% passed. The gap between what companies believe their supplier verification programs look like and what regulators actually find is not a minor discrepancy — it's a structural failure.
FSMA Section 204 requires food companies to maintain verified, electronic traceability records tied to every supplier and every lot — and produce them to FDA within 24 hours of request. Walmart now mandates GS1-compliant traceability data from all food and beverage suppliers. Scope 3 emissions reporting requirements are creating new demand for verified supplier-level data across global ingredient networks.
These mandates share a common requirement: supplier data that is verified, traceable, and digitally accessible on demand. Most F&B companies can't produce that today. VDSAI is built to close that gap.
Continuous monitoring of corporate identity, compliance standing, and digital presence across your entire supplier base — not just at onboarding, but ongoing. When something changes, you know.
Authenticated data exchange means every pricing, spec, and transaction record is tied to a verified legal entity and delivered directly from the authoritative source. No more COAs arriving as email attachments from addresses you haven't verified.
VDSAI's structured, machine-readable data format supports FSMA 204 traceability requirements and is designed for direct integration with your ERP and supply chain systems.