“The impact of this project will extend beyond the mango industry,” said CRCNA CEO Jed Matz. Following a 2.5 year-long pilot program, an Australia mango producer is scaling up its use of blockchain technology for supply chain traceability. According to the Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia, or CRCNA, the organization partnered with leading…
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Blockchain tech provides opportunities for progressive food enterprises to be more competitive and contribute to sustainability measures. Food supply chain management, or FSCM, has long been put forth as a low-hanging-fruit application in the enterprise blockchain space. Now, after years of pilots, the verdict is finally in: Blockchain-supported FSCM works perfectly. For innovation managers in…
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The price of Bitcoin will be calculated depending on its current price on Bitpay and the delivery platform. Just Eat, a major British online food order and delivery platform operating across 13 countries, has added cryptocurrency payment support for its France subsidiary. The company has partnered with the cryptocurrency payment provider Bitpay to allow its…
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The USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service is proposing the department utilize DLT to trace the supply chain of organic products. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has proposed amending its rules on organic products to include implementing blockchain technology to trace its supply chain. According to an Aug. 5 report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)…
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The VeChain Foundation announced a blockchain-based food safety solution based on its Blockchain-as-a-Service platform, ToolChain. VeChain’s newly released tool offers a suite of whitelabel services that will allow the food sector to implement on-chain safety management services. These services include traceability templates which track things like origin traceability, cross-border traceability, full-process traceability, and more. They…
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The IOHK and BeefChain partnership will trace beef from ranch to consumer, fighting beef fraud and improving food security. The team behind Cardano (ADA) blockchain, IOHK, have partnered with Wyoming-based BeefChain to utilize blockchain technology to improve food traceability and security. IOHK, which relocated to Wyoming in 2019, announced the partnership at the Cardano 2020…
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced it will study blockchain technology to aid in smarter food security. The United States Food and Drug Administration released a blueprint and pilot study for food safety, highlighting blockchain as a viable option for some of the identified challenges. The blueprint, released earlier this week, breaks down…
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Smucker will use a blockchain to trace Colombian coffee beans while letting consumers make donations to coffee farmers in Colombia. The J.M. Smucker Company, also known as Smucker’s, has announced that it will use blockchain technology to trace Colombian coffee beans directly back to their source while allowing consumers the opportunity to support coffee farmers.…
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Blockchain-based supply chain solutions proliferate, as VeChain establishes partnerships with fresh meat suppliers. Traceability-focused blockchain project, VeChain, has announced a partnership with China’s Shenzhen Yuhongtai Foods Company. This will allow Shenzhen to track pork products distributed by the retailer’s subsidiary, Meijiada Fresh Foods. The partnership will see detailed information concerning how pork sold by Meijiada…
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To gain transparency and consumer safety, the food-processing and meatpacking plants are implementing blockchain technology to their operation services. COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc, with United States meat producers being the latest victims of the pandemic in a “cascading series of events,” including shutting down of the food service sector, universities and school lunch programs,…
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