Food manufacturing might seem like a simple operation — farmers make food, it’s distributed to stores around the country, and we buy it and cook it. However, the process by which we get our food is a lot more complicated than many give it credit for being. The food system is an interconnected web of tasks and activities spun together into a process that brings together factors from food production and economics to regulation, technology, and transportation. It is because this process is complicated that it calls for a system to keep it in order. That’s where food traceability comes in. Being able to trace food of all variety — from meats and dairy to honey and wheat — is monumental for business to secure their food and for consumers to know the origins of what they put in their mouths.