Project Team: Agustina Busto , Marco Carvalho, Victor Cavazos, Zaher Srour , Uchenna Ogbonna ,Adnan Iftekhar, Christian Winzeler, Tim Reimers
Email addresses (comma separated): Marco.Carvalho@rsmus.com, adnan@whu.edu.cn, zaher.srour@foodwasteanalytics.com, jay.chugh@oracle.com, bonexx55@gmail.com, victor.cavazos@fruture.org
Description: Food supply chains have a critical effect on food prices and human health. It is very important to make sure the availability of linked data in the food supply chain for tracking and tracing to prevent foodborne illness risks, food integrity issues, food crisis, and food certification. Moreover, Health consciousness is an increasing phenomenon in recent years. As consumers are becoming more and more health conscious the meat and dairy producers have coined a new term in the market as ”organic”, ”natural” and ”grass-fed”. It has become more visible in markets and menu now. Consumers are becoming more concerns with evidence that the products they are buying are produced in proper environmental facilities with acceptable specifications. It also increases the trust of the customers that they are paying relatively high prices for what they want and they are not becoming the target of food scams and food frauds by counterfeit products in the market. The consumer trust in food suppliers and processors also increases the sales volume and revenue. The food supply chain is an extremely important factor in food safety and certification. United Nation Global Compact defines traceability as “The ability to identify and trace the history, distribution, location, and application of products, parts, and materials, to ensure the reliability of sustainability claims, in the areas of human rights, labor (including health and safety), the environment and anti-corruption”.
Purpose/Benefit: Cost-efficient Blockchain-based solutions that enable faster tractability, certify provenance and ensure the authenticity of food products from farm to fork
Scope: To establish common grounds on some of the areas about food safety and then look at how blockchain networks can address these challenges
- Traceability, transparency, and visibility in the food supply system
- Current available traceability Systems in terms of breadth, depth, and precision
- Cold chain management and the increasing complexity of the food supply chain system
- Current global industry regulations on food safety and fraud
- Food product recall practices
- Drivers for food safety standards
- Food product authenticity and product certification
Resources:
Interesting Article: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-carrefour-blockchain/carrefour-says-blockchain-tracking-boosting-sales-of-some-products-idUSKCN1T42A5