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Kathleen Martin
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A combination of sensors, blockchain technology, and the cloud is poised to deliver almost real-time tracking of food as it leaves a farm or fishery, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration wants to help the technology behind food traceability along.
The FDA has named 12 companies as winners of its New Era of Smarter Food Safety Low- or No-Cost Tech-Enabled Traceability Challenge, pulling the winners from more than 90 submissions from around the globe. The challenge sought companies that could improve food traceability from harvest through packaging, shipment, and finally, consumption. The businesses also had to provide this traceability in a manner that was easy to implement without IT expertise and at a low cost.
The contest was created as part of a 2020 FDA program to make food safety and traceability a priority. The idea of tracing food “from farm to fork” has been talked about for the last decade as food distributors battled recalls and saw opportunities in providing consumers with more information about their food. Ethically caught fish or fair-trade coffee are examples of selling consumers on a traceability story.
Both those efforts are industry-specific and often driven by a larger seller or distributor as opposed to an open standard that can be used across different food producers.
Continue reading: https://staceyoniot.com/the-fda-investigates-bringing-the-iot-to-food-supply-chains/
The FDA has named 12 companies as winners of its New Era of Smarter Food Safety Low- or No-Cost Tech-Enabled Traceability Challenge, pulling the winners from more than 90 submissions from around the globe. The challenge sought companies that could improve food traceability from harvest through packaging, shipment, and finally, consumption. The businesses also had to provide this traceability in a manner that was easy to implement without IT expertise and at a low cost.
The contest was created as part of a 2020 FDA program to make food safety and traceability a priority. The idea of tracing food “from farm to fork” has been talked about for the last decade as food distributors battled recalls and saw opportunities in providing consumers with more information about their food. Ethically caught fish or fair-trade coffee are examples of selling consumers on a traceability story.
Both those efforts are industry-specific and often driven by a larger seller or distributor as opposed to an open standard that can be used across different food producers.
Continue reading: https://staceyoniot.com/the-fda-investigates-bringing-the-iot-to-food-supply-chains/
