Blockchain for Food Safety: 2019-06-25 Meeting notes

Date

25 Jun 2019

Attendees

• Marco Carvalho Ben Taylor Christian Winzeler Baiju Jacob jeff stollman Mukul, Matt, 

Meeting minutes

• Introductions
  • Baiju
    • Focus on technology
    • Frameworks for traceability
  • Christian W.
    • F&B consulting
    • Standardization
    • Challenges participating/adopting
  • Jeff Stollman
    • Focus on tech
    • IoT background
    • Governance
    • Interoperability
  • Ben Taylor
    • LedgerDomain – compliance apps
    • Drug supply chain
    • Previous experience in food supply chain
  • Matt
    • Track/trace
    • Sawtooth
    • Pharma supply chain background
    • Real-world practical implementation of Blockchain
  • Mukul
    • Looking to contribute

Scope discussion

• 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, IoT
  • IoT devices used to track metrics
  • Keep within ranges
  • Algorithms unique by products
  • Limitation on sensor for unique needs
  • Active vs Passive
    • Active
      • Expensive
      • Cannot go on airplanes
    • Passive
      • Once arrived
    • Challenges:
      • Lacking cost affective maturity
      • Very little integration between existing IoT sensors
      • Air transit (active not possible)
      • Cannot consistently measure spoilage
    • Use cases
      • Cola (F&B)
        • Syrups have to stay within a certain temp range
        • Depending the temp, can change on chemical composition
        • Issue: truckers turn off heat units – not easy to prove
      • Produce
        • Issue: truck in high temp for too long
        • Affects shelf life based on temp
      • Desires
        • Presentations
          • Zest – Christian has the info
            • Using analytics to optimize order fulfillment
          • Maritime IoT tracking

• Current global industry regulations on food safety and fraud
  • Need more info on this
  • Regulatory bodies
    • Every country can be unique
    • US - FDA
    • Europe – EFSA
    • Others? (Asia, Africa, etc)
    • International?

• Food product recall practices
  • TBD

• Drivers for food safety standards
  • TBD

• Food product authenticity and product certification
  • TBD

• Integration and interoperability
  • Challenges
    • Within same framework (Fabric to Fabric)
    • Framework to Framework (Fabric to Sawtooth to Ethereum)
    • Even if can connect then what about the data model?

Goals

Discussion items

Action items