Nulogy rolls out track and trace module ahead of FSMA 204 deadline
Nulogy, a provider of food and beverage operations software, has launched Nulogy Track and Trace, a module designed to help food distributors, manufacturers, packagers and retailers meet the US Food and Drug Administration’s Food Safety Modernization Act Section 204 (FSMA 204) ahead of its July 2028 deadline. The module allows food companies to capture, link and retrieve the lot-level records the rule requires, and to respond to an FDA request within 24 hours.
Industry readiness gaps prompt new compliance tool
FSMA 204 compliance requires substantial changes across the food supply chain, and many companies remain unprepared. In a June 2026 Nulogy poll of 161 companies across the food supply chain, two-thirds said they were still assessing FSMA 204 scope or were unsure how they would meet the requirements. Thirty-seven per cent indicated they would extend an existing ERP, WMS or QMS, tools not purpose-built for the rule’s traceability and recall requirements.
How the module captures and links traceability data
Part of Nulogy Quality & Compliance, Track and Trace records every traceability event as goods are received, transformed and shipped, whether that data is captured directly in Nulogy or pulled from a company’s existing enterprise system. It generates the Critical Tracking Event (CTE) records the rule requires, creates and links Traceability Lot Codes (TLCs) automatically, and keeps every event in a single searchable register. When queried by the FDA, a company can trace a lot in both directions and produce the sortable file in minutes rather than the days it can take to reconstruct a lot manually.
“For most food companies, the traceability data is scattered across systems, sites, and partners. FSMA 204 is really about pulling it into one lot-level record you can produce on demand,” said Kevin Donaghy, Innovation Officer, Quality & Compliance, Nulogy. “The hardest lots to trace are the ones built from many suppliers and changed along the way, and by hand those can take weeks. We built Track and Trace to do that in minutes, so our customers are ready well before 2028.”
Key capabilities
- CTE register: every shipping, receiving and transformation event in one register, searchable by lot code, product, supplier or customer
- 24-hour sortable export: produces the FDA’s electronic sortable spreadsheet for any lot, product, date range or partner, in minutes
- Flexible data capture: traceability data can be entered directly in Nulogy, pulled from connected ERP, WMS and MES systems through Nulogy Connect, or both, so each Key Data Element (KDE) is captured once, at source
- Automated TLCs: generated and linked automatically when ingredients are combined or repacked
Part of a wider operations system
Nulogy Track and Trace extends the Nulogy Operating System, which already supports production, quality and compliance functions for food distributors, manufacturers and packagers, into full FSMA 204 traceability.
Nulogy is an IFDA Allied Member and a member of the Partnership for Food Traceability.
- For more information, visit: Nulogy.com
