A technique from the financial industry, blockchain technology, may help improve food chain safety. The initiative is being deployed in China to improve the transparency and traceability in pork production and in the U.S. on a produce project.
Source: Meat + Poultry, February 2017, page 66.
Pilot projects developed by Wal-Mart, IBM and Tsinghua University will use blockchain technology for the benefit of food safety in China. Blockchain is best known for underpinning cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.