Tackling skills and training
There’s an exodus of talent from the manufacturing sector, and organisations are struggling to replace people quickly enough to fill the gaps. Only a third (34%) of UK companies are regularly bringing in talented new hires, and a similar number have yet to establish relationships with educational institutions to build a needed pipeline of new staff.
Food traceability
An estimated 48m people are affected by foodborne illnesses in the US alone every year, resulting in 128,000 hospitalisations and 3000 deaths [1]. These shocking figures pose a significant public health burden – but they could be prevented with appropriate traceability measures.