
Food Safety
What Are The Advantages Of This Systems
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Present Scenario Of Food Safety
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Problems With The Present System
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No way for the consumer to know the source of the food. For example 1 have no way of knowing whether the particular apple I am buying came from Farmer Jones or not.
- No information to verify the “packed on” or “best before” dates.
- No traceability. For example in case of an e coli outbreak, the tracing has to be done manually by sifting through records of various entities in the supply chain including retailers, wholesalers, importers, shippers, transporters, etc. Very cumbersome and slow.
RFID Solution Of Food Safety
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One way of raising consumer confidence in the farm produce is by guaranteeing that a particular produce has been sourced from say an “approved” farm. This could be a way to verify that the “organically grown” produce has been really grown in an organic farm, not just labeled that way.
Future Scenarios Of Food Safety
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In future the governments & food safety authorities, the WHO & other international bodies may mandate the usage of RFID tags to determine the safety of food in the supply chain. Thus international shipments of foodstuff may have to carry tamperproof RFID tags.
- Savvy customers may now demand that produce labeled as “organic” or “chemical free” is really so. They may demand that the seller prove the origin by means of a pedigree trail (similar to the drug pedigree shown earlier) or else risk loss of his sales.