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Traceability Articles & Insights
Welcome to the Articles section of The Traceability Hub. This is where we publish our latest research, explainers, and thought pieces on all things traceability. Whether you’re a compliance officer, supply chain manager, or technology provider, here you’ll find practical knowledge to stay ahead of regulations and market trends. Read More
Resale Platforms as Enablers of Circular Fashion: The Role of Vinted and Vestiaire Collective
Explore how Vinted and Vestiaire Collective are transforming fashion resale, their different approaches to circularity, and why Digital Product Passports, product intelligence, and repair ecosystems are essential to move beyond resale and build a truly circular fashion industry.
Export Resilience Checklist: Assess Your Supply Chain Resilience & Risk Exposure
Evaluate your supply chain resilience, identify export risks and discover how prepared your business is to manage global disruptions, supplier vulnerabilities and market uncertainty.
The Hidden Dependencies of Italian Agrifood Supply Chains
How Italian agrifood companies can reduce exposure to input inflation, energy volatility, fertilizer risks, and upstream supplier blind spots through digital traceability.
Food Traceability: The Pillars of Safe Tracking Across the Agri-Food Supply Chain
A practical look at the essential building blocks of food traceability, showing how lot integrity, event capture, partner coordination, and recall readiness help create safer, more transparent agri-food supply chains.
FSMA 204: Technology Solutions for Food Regulatory Compliance
How digital traceability tools help food businesses capture critical events, connect lot-level data, and respond faster to FDA requests under FSMA 204.
From Ear Tags to Birth-to-Beef: How Bovine Traceability Evolved
How RFID, IoT, data platforms, and AI are transforming cattle traceability into end-to-end livestock intelligence.
Italy and EU-FMD: From the Bollino System to EU-Wide Serialization
Italy is moving from its legacy Bollino system to the EU-FMD framework. Here’s what pharmaceutical companies need to know about serialization, packaging changes, system integration, and operational readiness ahead of the 2027 go-live.
Italy’s New Industrial Momentum: Investment Growth, Strategic Autonomy, and the Traceability Imperative
How Made in Italy 2030 is redefining industrial competitiveness through energy resilience, geopolitical awareness, and traceable supply chains.
Geopolitics Meets Supply Chains: The New Role of Digital Traceability
How end-to-end visibility is becoming a strategic capability for navigating trade fragmentation, disruption, and supply chain volatility.
Is the EU Tobacco Framework Losing Its Evidence-Based Foundation?
An analysis of how EU tobacco regulation is balancing public health goals, internal market coherence, and the evidence debate around novel nicotine products.
From Cigarettes to Alternatives: What the EU Tobacco Debate Reveals About Consumer Behavior
As smoking declines across Europe, nicotine consumption is shifting toward alternative products, creating new regulatory, fiscal, and traceability challenges for policymakers and supply chains.
Italy’s Fashion Industry Faces a Cultural Gap: Why Workplace Excellence Is Becoming a Competitive Imperative
Why employee trust, leadership quality, and organizational culture are emerging as critical drivers of resilience and competitiveness in Italian fashion.
Exports in 2026: New Markets, New Risks for Italian Companies
As Italian companies look beyond traditional destinations, export growth increasingly depends on managing complexity, strengthening resilience, and building visibility across global supply chains.
Italian Tomato Industry: Competitiveness and Traceability
Italy’s tomato industry confronts its first export decline in a decade amid rising global pressures.
What You’ll Find Here
This section collects all of our published articles, guides, and reports about traceability. Content ranges from high-level industry trends to hands-on implementation advice, so you can move from understanding concepts to applying them in your organization.
Expect to find:
- Deep-dives into regulatory updates (EU, US, global).
- Case studies showing real-world traceability implementations.
- Practical how-to guides and checklists.
- Articles exploring technology innovation (AI, blockchain, IoT).
- Analyses of sustainability and circular economy initiatives.
Our articles are designed to cover the breadth of traceability and its impact across industries. Some recurring themes include:
- Regulatory compliance & standards (GS1, DPP, UDI, TPD, EUDR).
- Industry verticals: pharma, food, fashion, automotive, electronics, etc.
- Enabling technologies: serialization, blockchain, IoT, AI.
- Business outcomes: transparency, risk management, circularity.
Below you’ll find the full list of articles, updated regularly. Use this page as your starting point to dive deeper into the themes that matter most to your organization.
