Abstract
The world is facing an unprecedented socio-economic crisis caused by the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19). The virus is also spreading through the import and export food supply chains. The Chinese authorities have discovered the COVID-19 virus in various imported frozen meat packages. Traceability plays a vital role in food quality and food safety. The Internet of Things (IoT) provides solutions to overseeing environmental conditions, product quality, and product traceability. These solutions are traditionally based on a centralized architecture, which does not guarantee tamper-proof data sharing. The blockchain is an emerging technology that provides tamper-proof data sharing in real-time. This article presents a blockchain-enabled supply chain architecture to ensure the availability of a tamper-proof audit trail. This tamper-proof audit trail helps to make sure that all safety measures are undertaken to minimize the risk of COVID-19 and other bacteria, fungi, and parasites being present in the frozen meat supply chain.
Highlights
The novel coronavirus was declared a pandemic on 11 March 2020, by the WorldHealth Organization (WHO) [1]
This tamper-proof audit trail helps to make sure that all safety measures are undertaken to minimize the risk of COVID-19 and other bacteria, fungi, and parasites being present in the frozen meat supply chain
An agri-food supply chain traceability system for China based on RFID & blockchain technology
Summary
Health Organization (WHO) [1]. Countries around the world implemented full or partial lockdown to prevent the pandemic from spreading. The core goal of supply chain traceability is to track and trace healthy environmental conditions regarding the facilities, workers’ health, and the secure custody of commodities from farm to distributor, to ensure food safety and increase the customer’s trust in their brand. IoT technology innovations heavily rely on centralized and cloud-based solutions These solutions are not able to provide enough trusted data and information to cope with the current risks of COVID-19 infection, due to the lack of transparency, data lock-in, and audit-ability [16]. It is a big challenge to ensure there are associated data in the food supply chains from origin to destination These data are essential to prevent COVID-19 and other foodborne illness risks and food integrity issues, and allow for the issuing of various food certificates.
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