Sara Bratager is the Senior Food Safety & Traceability Scientist working with the Global Food Traceability Center (GFTC) at the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT). She enjoys applying years of traceability and food safety management experience in manufacturing toward GFTC’s efforts to engage food system stakeholders in their traceability journey through applied research, capacity building, advocacy, system design and implementation. IFT was instrumental in developing some of the key traceability concepts and practices behind the Food Traceability Rule; Sara and the GFTC team continue to support industry actors in their FSMA 204 compliance journey.