FDA + FSMA + HACCP compliance, what does Magento need to enforce?

Magento is the commerce layer, not the food-safety system. The compliance lives in your kitchen, your 3PL, and your supply-chain documentation. But Magento does carry three load-bearing data points:

• Allergen labeling, FDA requires the 9 major allergens (milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, soybeans, sesame) to be declared on every recipe. Stored as EAV flags on the recipe entity, surfaced on PDP + customer dietary filter + box-insert recipe card. Audit log if a flag changes between menu versions.
• Cold-chain HACCP traceability, each box ships with a temperature-logger sticker (or QR code linking to a thermal-log dashboard). Magento records the lot/batch number per recipe per ship date so that if a recall is needed, you can identify every customer who received a specific batch within 30 minutes (FSMA 204 traceability rule, effective 2026).
• FSMA 204 audit trail, the order-to-recipe-to-lot mapping is queryable for FDA audits. Magento order extension attributes hold the recipe-version-id + lot-number per line item. ShipBob and Ryder both have FSMA-204-compatible warehouse systems that push lot data back to Magento via API.

The kitchen and 3PL handle the actual HACCP plan, cooler-temperature monitoring, ice-pack composition, and recall protocols. Magento just has to surface the data cleanly.