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Proof of Steak: using blockchain to transform food-tracing of beef
“The world is changing… blockchain is really the only way to go,” Steven C. Lupien, President and Co-Founder of BeefChain
Food traceability has become a priority in the food industry, with consumers demanding healthier products combined with various GMO free, hormone free and grass-fed attributes. Once a food-related health risk is discovered, companies and governments alike struggle […]
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Blockchains can trace foods from farm to plate, but the industry is still behind the curve
Food supply chains were vulnerable long before the coronavirus pandemic. Recent scandals have ranged from modern slavery in Vietnamese fisheries to the persistent problem of child labour in the cocoa industry. Perhaps the most well known fraud was the UK’s horsemeat scandal of 2013, where up to 60% of products labelled as beef were actually horse.
UK supermarkets have also been found […]
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IoT data marketplaces for the agri-food sector: use cases
AIOTI WG Smart Farming and Food Security just published new paper “IoT data marketplaces for the agri-food sector: a first look to use cases for smart farming and across the food chain’
Recent years have seen an increasing interest in the use of digital technologies as tools to contribute to the wide sustainability of the agri-food […]
