The digital transformation of shrimp aquaculture in Ecuador has accelerated the adoption of traceability technologies to improve transparency, regulatory compliance, and supply chain coordination. However, persistent structural limitations—such...
End-to-end traceability offers significant opportunities for product lifecycle visibility, sustainability enhancement, and regulatory compliance in product management. However, it faces challenges in data integration and management, supplier collabor...
Background: Traceability systems and carbon emissions are two important factors involved in production and distribution activities. The involvement of these two factors in production and distribution activities along the supply chain will ensure the...
The circular economy increases the importance of quality and traceability in functional materials produced from industrial, municipal, and agricultural waste. However, the selection of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies in waste valorization remains un...
The Digital Product Passport (DPP) is an emergent strategic tool poised to significantly enhance traceability, circularity, and sustainability within industrial supply chains, aligning with evolving European Union regulatory frameworks. This paper in...
In the specific application scenario of pepper product supply chain traceability, with the advancement of pepper product production, the expansion of links, and the increase of nodes, the quantity of data will become more and more enormous. The singl...
The production chain of hazelnuts has been studied by analyzing three sets of samples produced in purity from three different pools of hazelnuts of cultivar “Tonda Gentile Trilobata”, “Tonda Gentile Romana” and “Mortarel...
In recent years, with the frequent crises of trust in the food industry, food safety issues have become an issue of particular concern to consumers. The traditional agricultural food logistics and transportation model can no longer guarantee the trac...
The quality and safety of agricultural products involve a variety of risk factors, a large amount of risk information data, and multiple circulation and disposal processes, making it difficult to accurately trace the source of risks. To achieve preci...
Most traditional agricultural traceability systems are centralized, which could result in the low reliability of traceability results, enterprise privacy data leakage vulnerabilities, and the generation of information islands. To solve the above prob...
With the development of agricultural information technology, the Internet of Things and blockchain have become important in the traceability of agricultural products. Sensors collect real-time data in agricultural production and a blockchain provides...
The application of blockchain technology in industrial product quality traceability is analyzed to construct a new model of product quality traceability that is mainly based on blockchain technology and supplemented by an identity system. The blockch...
As a result of the current imperfection of the meat traceability system, there have been numerous food safety events with serious consequences. In this paper, a meat product information traceability system is designed to efficiently prevent such prob...
This study employs an evolutionary game theory framework to analyze the interactive learning, imitation, and strategic evolution among multiple actors within China’s aquatic product traceability system. It focuses on four types of strategic int...
Blockchain-based traceability systems are a promising approach because they are decentralized, transparent, and tamper proof; however, if all traceability data are uploaded to a blockchain platform, it may affect the efficiency or even lead to data e...
To combat counterfeiting in down products and enhance enterprise credibility through technical means, this paper proposes a blockchain-based down quality traceability framework named DPT (down-product traceability). Built on Hyperledger Fabric, the f...
21 January 2021
Establishing a blockchain food traceability system (BFTS) is increasingly important and urgent to resolve the contradiction between consumers’ intention regarding safe food selections and the spread of polluted foods. Using the advantages of blockcha...
Farm Management Information Systems (FMISs) are being expanded to improve operation efficiency, reduce inputs, and ensure compliance with standards and regulations. However, this goal is difficult to attain in the vegetable sector, where data acquisi...
9 November 2021
The application of traceability technology is an important way to solve food safety problems. Different traceability technologies bring different effects to consumers. Existing studies have not explored consumers’ preferences in regards to product tr...
9 February 2023
Government subsidies have played an important role in the development of green agriculture. In addition, the Internet platform is becoming a new channel to realize green traceability and promote the sale of agricultural products. In this context, we...
RFID is usually used for product recognition, object-level tracking, inventory visibility, logistics monitoring, authentication, and automated data capture for various supply chain industries. RFID can enable traceability, authentication (anti-counte...
Drawing on the literature on green innovation, recycling, digitalization, and human associative memory (HAM) theory, this study applies the concept of product transformation salience (PTS) to the context of green consumption, investigating how PTS af...
Agricultural supply chains face growing scrutiny due to rising concerns over food authenticity, safety, and sustainability. These challenges stem from issues such as contamination risks, fraudulent labelling, and the absence of reliable, real-time tr...
Within the framework of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the transition toward green and low-carbon development has achieved broad international consensus. Blockchain technology offers an effective instrument for surmounting t...
The quality of fresh products through cross-regional sales has been uncertain to consumers. To improve the quality of fresh products, some fresh product supply chains have implemented blockchain technology to provide traceable information for their p...
In agricultural production, chemical fertilizers and pesticides are being used in large quantities; the residues of these substances have some negative impact on the quality of agricultural products and soil, and they produce a large amount of carbon...
Tobacco products are an addictive commodity. According to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) latest statistics data, tobacco kills more than eight million people each year. In 2003, the WHO proposed the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCT...
Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) was evaluated to trace the high hydrostatic pressure (HHP) processing and preservation temperature (4 °C vs. 20 °C) over the course of a long term in vacuum-packaged Iberian dry-cured tenderloin (Iliopsoas et...
The globalization of food markets has led companies to buy products not only locally, but also from other corners of the world. This has introduced complexity into supply chains, as products have to move longer distances and pass through more compani...
Due to recurring food quality and safety issues, growing segments of consumers, especially in developed markets, and regulators in agri-food supply chains (AFSCs) require a fast and trustworthy system to retrieve necessary information on their food p...
The development of a colorimetric mono-varietal discriminating assay, aimed at improving traceability and quality control checks of durum wheat products, is described. A single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) was identified as a reliable marker for whe...
Legal requirements and consumer demands have motivated the development and application of traceability technology. Farming practices are the starting point of the agri-food supply chain and the destination of the agri-food traceability system (AFTS)....
This study proposes an improved methodology based on life cycle assessment (LCA), which is used to calculate the carbon footprint of agriculture, provides a simple and feasible calculation path, and constructs a streamlined framework for calculating...
Medical device manufacturing requires strict quality control, reliable traceability, and compliance with regulatory requirements. In many cases, inspection activities are still carried out manually and production information is recorded separately, w...
With the growing popularity of complex dynamic activities in manufacturing processes, traceability of the entire life of every product has drawn significant attention especially for food, clinical materials, and similar items. This paper studies the...
The increasing number of food frauds, mainly targeting high quality products, is a rising concern among producers and authorities appointed to food controls. Therefore, the development or implementation of methods to reveal frauds is desired. The gen...
5 December 2022
As one of the key technologies to ensure the safety of agricultural products, the national traceability platform is being widely promoted in China. However, it has not yet been widely adopted among farmers, especially small-scale farmers. Farmers are...
To solve the problems of chaotic information management and difficult traceability in the manufacturing process of transformer coils, a traceability and management method oriented towards the manufacturing process of transformer coils has been propos...
The aquatic products industry has experienced rapid development due to the growing global demand for high-quality proteins. However, conventional production models remain constrained by multifaceted impediments, including disease outbreaks, environme...
Food safety is an important issue in today’s world. The traditional agri-food production system does not offer easy traceability of the produce at any point of the supply chain, and hence, during a food-borne outbreak, it is very difficult to sift th...
In the rising new global economic and social period, after the COVID-19 pandemic, traceability is expected to be a critical parameter for the selection of foods by consumers worldwide. Accordingly, traditional foods (TFs) can become the foods of choi...
Galician wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) serves as the foundational component of Galician bread, a traditional Spanish product granted the Protected Geographical Indication (PGI, EU quality scheme), which is primarily conserved at the Agricultural Resea...
This study aims to demonstrate an integrated methodology for the valorisation of bakery former food products (FFP) as an ingredient of pig feed diets. The methodology involves: conducting a needs analysis and a full path traceability scheme based on...
Consumers have realized the importance of a healthy diet, hoping to reduce the occurrence of obesity and chronic diseases. Therefore, healthy boxed meals with low calories and high protein are gaining attention. This study divided the attributes of h...
Vine traceability is a critical issue that has gained interest internationally. Quality control programs and schemes are mandatory in many countries including EU members and the USA. Albania has transformed most of the EU regulations on food into law...
1 June 2025
The fashion industry is undergoing significant transformation through blockchain technology, which enhances product traceability, authenticity, and transactional transparency. This study explores blockchain’s potential to revolutionize the fash...
Existing product anti-counterfeiting and traceability solutions across today’s internationally spanning supply chain networks are indeed developed and implemented with centralized system architecture relying on centralized authorities or intermediari...
The International Coffee Convention 2023 comprehensively addressed the contemporary challenges and advancements in the coffee industry, emphasizing sustainability, health, and innovation. This convention gathered experts and stakeholders to explore d...
The Digital Product Passport (DPP) as a product-specific data set is a powerful tool that provides information on the origin or composition of products and increases transparency and traceability. This recycling case study accompanies the production...
Green Lean and Sustainable Value Stream Mapping (Sus-VSM) rely on environmental information to identify waste and support improvement. This information remains primarily attached to processes and measurement points within the mapped value stream, lim...
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