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Pilot opens October 2026 · built for FSMA 204

Your supplier says they’re ready. Can they prove it in 24 hours?

Verified Trust Score measures whether a food supply company can do what its paperwork claims — trace a lot, produce the record, keep shipping through a disruption. Every answer is scored by how it is backed, not how confidently it is asserted.

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A grower · five controls · real engine output

What they claim

answers at their word

What evidence supports

verified by VTS

1
Sign and date the traceability policy
self-attested → signed & dated
2
Point to the audit that already covers lot codes
signed → third-party audited
3
Upload the recall test report
unanswered → signed & dated
4
Attach the MFA policy screenshot
self-attested → signed & dated

Credit ratings tell you if they can pay. Nothing tells you if they can respond.

24 hours

to hand FDA a sortable electronic record once it asks

2 years

the records behind every critical tracking event must be kept

20 Jul 2028

the FSMA 204 compliance date — a dated obligation, no way yet to prove readiness

How a code is earned

Same answer, different evidence, different code.

STEP 1

Answer what applies to you

The questionnaire adapts to your industry, role and commodities. A grower and a carrier never see the same set.

STEP 2

Back it up

Attach the certificate, the SOP, the audit letter. Each is read, checked against the answer and rated for how independently it is confirmed.

STEP 3

Prove one thing live

We name a lot. The clock starts. A third party watches. The result is a time nobody can write into a form.

STEP 4

Publish on your terms

You choose who sees the detail. The code, its band and how well it is backed always travel together.

The scale

10 to 99, in five bands — read it like a credit score

Every verified code carries the tick. An estimate never does, and is never given a band.

How verification works

At risk10–47

Developing48–61

Good62–73

Strong74–86

Proven87–99

For buyers, insurers and lenders

See your whole supply base on one scale

Every supplier on the same scale, with the same disclosure rules

Know who can trace within 24 hours — tested, not asserted

Set a requirement and watch the base move toward it

Alerts when a certificate lapses or a code moves

See the buyer view

For growers, packers, processors and carriers

Answer once. Show every buyer.

Replace the stack of one-off buyer questionnaires

Get portable credit for the audits you already pay for

See exactly which documents would raise your code

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Questions we get

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The letters say where a company operates and how long it has, verified from public records. The digits earn credit by how strongly each answer is backed — self-attested, signed and dated, third-party audited, or confirmed at source. We publish the method; the weights stay private, for the same reason a credit bureau does not publish its coefficients.

The pilot cohort opens in October.

Fifty companies across growing, packing, processing and cold chain. Early participants help set the weights for their own industry.