The Freshtag™ catering label system is a cost-effective way to ensure compliance with food storage and handling rules and regulations. The system allows catering suppliers to easily adopt this efficient method of safety and quality validation whether used on campus, for remote services, for retail locations, inside home delivery packaging, or as part of e-commerce retail protocol. Vitsab Freshtag™ Catering Labels are simple to supply, store and use. No additional tools are required in your prep-kitchen, your pack-out facility, during transportation, or at their destination. In use, Freshtag™ catering label’s exclusive “stop light” technology is easy to visually understand and received positive ratings from Chefs, kitchen help, servers, retailers, and home delivery recipients. The Freshtag™ catering label system won the IAFPs (International Association for Food Protection) 2023 Food Safety Innovation Award.

The US FDA has a long-standing reputation as a leading global regulatory authority. In 2011 and then revised in June of 2022, they published the Fish and Fishery Products Hazards and Controls Guidance. Chapter 13 focuses on the health concern of clostridium botulinum toxin (C-bot toxin) formation in seafood packaged in ROP/MAP (reduced oxygen packaging/modified atmospheric packaging). The time/temperature standard for when C-bot toxin can potentially form is known as the Skinner & Larkin curve or boundary (Skinner & Larkin 1998) and the authors suggest the use of TTIs to indicate a possible risk of C-bot toxin if seafood products were exposed to increased temperature during shipping and distribution. Using the data from Dr. Skinner & Dr. Larkin’s research, Vitsab® was able to engineer the Freshtag® L5-8 Seafood Label to mirror the Skinner & Larkin Boundary. Since their adoption, Freshtag® L5-8 Seafood label use has expanded for all types of direct shipments of seafood globally.

A color changing Freshtag™ TTI (time temperature indicator) label monitors caviar in refrigerated or passive storage conditions for time/temperature abuse to safeguard safety and quality. Vitsab has more than twenty years of temperature monitoring success, so Freshtag™ Caviar Labels were developed by tapping into this rich history. They are easily integrated into any Food Safety Management System and/or Quality Management System (QMS).  Your customers deserve to know their caviar received constant cumulative temperature monitoring by full history Freshtag™ Caviar Labels.

The Freshtag™ Caviar Label System is a cost-effective way to ensure compliance with food storage and handling rules and regulations. The system allows caviar suppliers to easily adopt this efficient method of safety and quality validation whether used on shipments to high-end restaurants, retail locations, distributors, inside home delivery packaging, or as part of e-commerce retail protocol. Vitsab Freshtag™ Caviar Labels are simple to receive, store, and use. No additional tools are required in your harvesting facility, your pack-out location, during transportation, or at their destination. In use, Freshtag™ caviar label’s exclusive “stop light” technology is easy to visually understand and received positive ratings from Chefs, kitchen facilities, servers, resellers, retailers, and home delivery recipients.

There is a need for cost-effective, package level, time/temperature monitoring to service the Shellstock market.  The risk associated with a single package of Shellstock can result in many people being adversely affected. The goal is safety, the reduction of illness and even death from consuming raw shellfish, all while increasing consumer confidence in this excellent source of protein. The time/temperature monitoring solution needed is Vitsab’s® Freshtag® Shell Safe Shipping System. You can validate your product was delivered under proper temperature control during the full journey.

Freshtag® Shell Safe Shipping Labels were developed with the help of USA FDA’s Shellstock Research Facility in Dauphin Island Alabama, state regulators, and industry. After receiving from FDA time/temperature predictive growth data for vibrio species, Vitsab scientists then worked with the State of Connecticut and their local shellstock farmers to validate FDA’s predictive growth data and calibrate Freshtag’s® Shell Safe Shipping formulation. As a result, Shell Safe Shipping Labels have been calibrated to change color according to the time/temperature relationship for vibrio species to double one-time. Shell Safe Shipping Labels use “Stop Light” technology and are calibrated to align with NSSP temperature monitoring guidelines.