A Survey on Compliance Standards and their IT-Support in the Nutrition Industry

Compliance standards are necessary to ensure that enterprises adhere to important laws and regulations concerning their business. To overcome the diversity of laws and regulations, software companies have promised to support the enterprises by appropriate software solutions. Consequently, new compliance management systems have been brought to the market and existing business applications have been extended by compliance functionalities. The following approach analyses whether significant compliance standards for the nutrition industry have been sufficiently implemented.