Ibm Walmart Blockchain Food Safety
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Ibm walmart blockchain food safety. That initiative is designed to bring the requisite efficiency transparency and authenticity to food. Walmart is working with ibm to implement blockchain as part of new food safety requirements for its suppliers. Brigid mcdermott ibm s vice president of food safety concedes that initially the data will not be any cleaner than it is today however she hopes that using the blockchain will help improve the quality of the data over time. Ibm food trust built on blockchain benefits all network participants with a safer smarter and more sustainable food ecosystem.
Last week ibm announced the launch of the blockchain food safety alliance formed in conjunction with walmart the tsinghua university national engineering laboratory for e commerce technologies. Walmart china has launched a blockchain based platform aimed to address food safety concerns in the country. Announced tuesday in a press release the chinese arm of the u s. The digitization of transactions and data provides a more efficient way of working across the supply chain including growers processors shippers retailers regulators and consumers.
By this time next year walmart and sam s club will ask suppliers of leafy greens like. Frank yiannas walmart s vice president of food safety explains how walmart can track food products through its supply chain using ibm food trust built on the ibm blockchain platform. And walmart s food safety solution has been working with ibm and its blockchain platform.