Traceability system for quality monitoring in the fishery and aquaculture value chain

Abstract

Nowadays it is important to know the origins of most products, not only for public health reasons, with regard to food products, but also because of the increasing people's awareness of environmental and social aspects, posing new challenges in the quality of products and their environmental impact. Food traceability information must be collected throughout the supply chain, and be registered on a platform external to all operators in that chain. This information must be available, not only to value chain operators and public health authorities, but also to end customers. One of the best ways to provide customers with this traceability information, in the places where they need to make a decision about which products to buy, is to add kiosks at the points of sale for those products. This article describes the design and architecture of a traceability platform for fish and fishery products, within the scope of the ValorMar R&D project, as well as the applications that supply the platform with traceability information, and a kiosk application for points of sale and a mobile app for final consumers, which will allow them to consult the traceability of fish and fishery products' lots. • A new traceability platform for tracing fish and derived products from sea to fork. • The platform comprises a microservices backend, and kiosk and mobile user apps. • Platform allows easy recall of fish lots by authorities, for food safety reasons. • Traceability, taxonomy and nutritional information is provided to value chain users. • The backend has been stress tested, and user apps have been tested for usability.