[Chapter-delegates] Blockchain and Food Tracability

[Johan Jörgensen]

Trust is always needed before we can secure through technology. Bio data
plus identifier is probably where we’ll go. Trust plus an open and general
identifier system plus blockchain is probably a good starting point.
Blockchain on its own - as you point out John - is not enough.


lör 29 sep. 2018 kl. 01:12 skrev Niran Beharry <nbeharrytt at gmail.com>:

> 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
>> >
>> >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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