[Chapter-delegates] Blockchain and Food Tracability

[Niran Beharry]

There is a local system being deployed to do plant to bar (this is for
tracking cocoa pods to final product)
Niran

On Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 11:40 John Levine <isocmember at johnlevine.com> wrote:

> In article <
> CAN7+85fyCw17jZX07Jn8Pi6DyU2Ai_u2sig1yEXKGqQcztxPVQ at mail.gmail.com> you
> write:
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> http://theinstitute.ieee.org/resources/standards/how-blockchain-technology-could-track-and-trace-food-from-farm-to-fork
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> >This is very interesting since its  US law to trace food that is
> >contaminated ie. E Coli etc  back to the actual farm
>
> Tracing food is a dandy idea but this makes the usual blockchain
> enthusiast error of assuming that if it's on the blockchain it must be
> true.  Tagging the food and accurately identifying what each tag is
> attached to is the hard part, not sticking the tag IDs in a database.
>
> All the tags in the world won't help if a sleazy packer can just
> put a tag for a clean field on produce from a dirty field.
>
> R's,
> JOhn
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