Afilias Discovery Services' Ali Rezafard will be a panel member at:

Session 7: Governance and public policy

A recent recall of Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein (HVP) has once again reinforced the harmful effects of a disconnected supply chain.  HVP is an ingredient found in many spices, sauces, and mixes, products which are themselves used in millions of foods.  Recalls such as these can severely affect consumer brand confidence.   Because of the broken chains in our traceability system, many more brands are affected because most food manufacturers cannot see where all of the contaminated products have come from upstream nor can they see what products have been affected downstream.  There are things that can be done today, however, to enable clearer visibility along the supply chain and to help you get ready for a future National Traceability System, as proposed by the U.S. Congress.  As a provider of traceability services, Afilias has some best practice recommendations for you for establishing a framework to help you view your product data from farm to fork.

The purpose of this position, based in Horsham, PA, is to provide technical subject matter expertise to facilitate Managed DNS sales.

Afilias will be exhibiting at the 2010 Food Safety Summit in Washington, DC.  Stop by booth #727 to learn how Afilias Discovery Services enables true end to end traceability in the supply chain!

Afilias Discovery Services VP, Brian Cute, will be speaking on the panel: Traceability - Supply Chain Wide Adoption of Electronic Traceability.  The panel will be held Tuesday, April 13th at 1:45 pm in the Exhibit Hall Theatre A.

Afilias is a silver sponsor of the 6th Annual North American Summit on Food Safety. Afilias' Ali Rezafard will be featured on a panel discussion on Tuesday, March 9th at 2:15 p.m. entitled "Best practices in tracing food and pathogens to provide quicker recalls that are more efficient". Visit our booth to discuss how Afilias Discovery Services can provide complete and secure end-to-end traceability in a supply chain. 

Afilias Discovery Services will be at booth 4319 at the Produce Marketing Association's 2009 Fresh Summit.  Stop by to learn how Discovery Services provide full end-to-end traceability in the supply chain.

Brian Cute, Afilias VP of Discovery Services, talks about the 'Internet of Things' on the Australian Broadcasting Corp's weekly radio show: Future Tense.

EPCglobal leads the development of industry-driven standards for the Electronic Product Code^TM (EPC) to support the use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in implementing traceability technolog

Overview of implementing Afilias Discovery Services in a supply chain network

Within a supply chain network, partners use their respective internal business applications to capture life cycle data for products and services, which includes detailed information about the events and transactions that occur in a business process. This stored data enables partners to make business decisions within their own organizations. However, to communicate effectively with one another, supply chain members need a mechanism that enables them to share relevant data in a secure and selective manner.

Afilias Discovery Services (ADS) leverages an open, web services protocol called the Extensible Supply-chain Discovery Service (ESDS) and provides a complementary Object Naming Service (ONS) that is compliant with EPCglobal standards (www.epcglobalinc.org ).