Could You Survive an Audit Tomorrow? Trace One and Connecting Food Show Food and Beverage Manufacturers How to Build Defensible Compliance and Real-Time Supplier Traceability

Paris, France — 15 April 2026 — A regulator or a customer asks for the current spec, the compliance approval history, and the supplier evidence for one of your products. Does the room go quiet? Are you able to find the right person who has that information? How long would it take you to find a single source of truth in your company? Are you capable of running a self-audit in anticipation to know if you are compliant?

For most food and beverage manufacturers, these questions expose an uncomfortable reality: compliance documentation lives in multiple systems, supplier certificates may or may not be current, and pulling together a defensible traceability record for a single product takes days of work that should take minutes. The cost isn’t just preparation time. It’s the risk of a finding that leads to a corrective action, a delayed shipment, or a loss of retailer confidence that took years to build.

On April 23 at 4:00 PM CET, Trace One and Connecting Food are co-hosting a live webinar that tackles this challenge: "Could You Survive an Audit Tomorrow?" The session shows how to build a supplier evidence model that scales, so you can see your compliance level, identify the weak spots, and model the impact of your actions to improve — before the auditor arrives.

Registration link: Could You Survive an Audit Tomorrow? | Trace One & Connecting Food Webinar 

From Scattered Documentation to a Single, Defensible Compliance Record

Trace One helps companies create a controlled internal product record across specifications, formulation, labeling, approvals, and supplier collaboration. Connecting Food extends that model with supplier data gathering, compliance scoring, and live audit capabilities that help businesses assess whether supplier evidence is current, complete, and still aligned to the product record. Together, they help companies move toward a more defensible compliance record as products, packaging, and suppliers change. 

What you’ll learn:

Reduce specification and label drift
Learn why product changes often move faster than controlled data, and how stronger control across formulation, specifications, approvals, and labeling helps reduce audit findings, rework, and retailer escalation.

Strengthen supplier visibility before it becomes a compliance problem
See how a more structured approach to supplier evidence helps teams reduce document chasing, improve visibility across safety, allergens, sustainability, origin, and required documentation, and identify weak points earlier.

Make audit readiness part of day to day operations
Understand how businesses can reduce manual work by making specifications, supporting documents, approval history, and supplier evidence easier to retrieve, review, and validate as part of normal workflows rather than last minute preparation.

Connect product data with supplier proof
Explore how product data and supplier evidence can be brought into a more connected workflow, helping teams respond faster to audits, customer requests, and internal reviews with greater confidence.

Why Audit Readiness Has Never Been More Critical

Food businesses are operating in an environment with more scrutiny, more documentation pressure, and less tolerance for weak traceability or slow responses. As the webinar will show, exposure often begins well before a major incident. It begins when a company cannot quickly prove that its current specification, label, supplier evidence, and traceability record still line up. For manufacturers and retailers alike, stronger audit readiness is becoming a practical requirement for protecting compliance, brand confidence, and commercial relationships.

Who Should Attend

This webinar is designed for VP/Directors of Quality, Supply Chain, Regulatory Compliance, and Product Development at food and beverage manufacturers and CPG retailers who want to move from reactive audit preparation to continuous compliance confidence.

Webinar Details

Title: "Could You Survive an Audit Tomorrow?"

Date: April 23, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM CET (10:00 AM ET)

Format: Live webinar with Q&A (recording available on-demand after the event)

Speakers:

Laetitia Pires, Trace One

Maxine Roper, Connecting Food

With more than 30 years of industry expertise, Trace One partners with over 9,000 brands across food and beverage, cosmetics, and chemicals to accelerate product development and turn regulatory complexity into a competitive advantage. Our AI-powered PLM platform, with regulatory intelligence spanning 170+ countries, supports the entire product manufacturing lifecycle — helping brands bring market-leading products to shelf faster and thrive in new markets.

Learn more at traceone.com.

About Connecting Food

Connecting Food is a leading provider of end-to-end transparency solutions for industries relying on natural resources, including food, textiles, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals. Its modular platform leverages real-time data from the earliest stages of the supply chain to monitor product quality, traceability, compliance, and sustainability performance. By transforming supply chain data into verified insights, Connecting Food empowers organizations to build trust with their partners and consumers while driving positive environmental and social impact.

For more information, visit www.connecting-food.com