Abstract
In recent years, traceability systems have been developed as effective tools for improving the transparency of supply chains, thereby guaranteeing the quality and safety of food products. In this study, we proposed a cattle/beef supply chain traceability model and a traceability system based on radio frequency identification (RFID) technology and the EPCglobal network. First of all, the transformations of traceability units were defined and analyzed throughout the cattle/beef chain. Secondly, we described the internal and external traceability information acquisition, transformation, and transmission processes throughout the beef supply chain in detail, and explained a methodology for modeling traceability information using the electronic product code information service (EPCIS) framework. Then, the traceability system was implemented based on Fosstrak and FreePastry software packages, and animal ear tag code and electronic product code (EPC) were employed to identify traceability units. Finally, a cattle/beef supply chain included breeding business, slaughter and processing business, distribution business and sales outlet was used as a case study to evaluate the beef supply chain traceability system. The results demonstrated that the major advantages of the traceability system are the effective sharing of information among business and the gapless traceability of the cattle/beef supply chain.
Highlights
In recent years, beef has become an important food in China because of its perceived nutritional value among consumers, concerns about beef quality and safety have increased greatly
This paper proposed a beef supply chain traceability system based on radio frequency identification (RFID) technology and EPCglobal network
In the model of traceability information, the electronic product code information service (EPCIS) events and traceability information related to cattle/beef are designed in detail, and AggregationEvent is used to establish the relationships between parent and child traceability units when the traceability units are segmented or packaged
Summary
Beef has become an important food in China because of its perceived nutritional value among consumers, concerns about beef quality and safety have increased greatly. The authors described the radio frequency identification (RFID) technology and some RFID-based system architectures in detail They illuminated RFID deployment architectures of supply chain traceability system, which include the EPCglobal network, the SaviTrak system, the microsoft BizTalk RFID and the Sun Java System RFID, and discussed the properties of this architectures. In order to improve the efficiency of traceability information retrieval, Ko et al(2011) and Kang et al (2013) focused on the development of product search algorithm and generic traceability services based on EPCglobal network[36,37]. In the research field of the food supply chain based on the EPCglobal network, several researchers paid attention to the study the product search algorithm and generic system services, and others modeled and implemented traceability system for specific sectors. According to Karlsen et al (2013), there’s not a sound common theoretical framework with respect to implementation of food traceability, and further theoretical developments on implementations of food traceability are needed[40]
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