REUTERS/EricGaillard This article comes from the cooperative media and is reproduced with the authorization of INSIDE. The original title is "Working with the retail giant Carrefour, the blockchain" Food Production and Marketing Resume "developed by IBM is officially launched and comes into your life"
According to the press release issued by American technology giant IBM on June 8, 10, after "18 months of testing and experiments", the "food production and marketing resume" based on blockchain technology will finally be officially launched.
In addition, the press release also revealed that retail giant Carrefour will also join this blockchain ecosystem.
EmmanuelDelerm, head of Carrefour's blockchain, said that supermarket chain stores had been developing their own blockchain system for more than a year, and the main work was undertaken by their internal team of engineers. Later, they turned to cooperate with IBM.
Carrefour from France has more than 65438+2000 stores in 33 countries around the world. Now Carrefour intends to take North America as the starting point and take the lead in experiencing the benefits brought by blockchain technology to food retail stores.
According to the news released by IBM, Carrefour is planning to promote this technology to mass market stores around the world by 2022.
IBM's "food trust"-integration from upstream to downstream In 20 16, IBM announced the launch of the "IBMFoodTrust" project, trying to connect all operators in the food industry from upstream to downstream with blockchain technology.
The project entered the experimental period from 2065438 to August 2007, and was implemented in cooperation with several North American food companies. (Nestle Company, Dole Food Company. ，dris coll“sinc。 , GonstateFoods, Kroger Company, krogh, McCormickandco. , McLanek. Tai Sen Tyson Food Company, Unilever Company. )
On Monday, top coa associates(GPO), the largest retail food joint purchasing organization in North America, also joined the "Honest Food" program, representing the cooperation with 15000 stores. Wakefern, which cooperates with retailers, represents 50 member companies and 344 stores; And suppliers including Beefchain, DennickFruitSource and Smithfield.
The "Honest Food" program can also involve other companies through a module, which allows companies to upload product-related data to the system through the cloud or other applications, and it is free. The more advanced version involves functions such as certificate authentication, organic authentication and fair trade certificate.
RameshGopinath, IBM's vice president in charge of blockchain solutions, said that the main pillar of IBM's honest food program is the ability to "track" and "track" goods in the supply chain. For example, apples of baby food brands can be accurately located in specific batches and orchards; After that, if there is pollution, you can trace the source and continue to recycle all the products that may be affected.
This is obviously a solution that requires the participation of food producers, suppliers and retailers, and sends information in a "credible" and "licensed" way. We connect them together.
Gopinas said.
According to IBM, these food companies used the food production and marketing blockchain to track millions of items during the trial of the "Honest Food" project.
As early as 20 16, another American retailer, Wal-Mart, cooperated with IBM to test the historical blockchain of food production and marketing. Wal-Mart successfully tracked and destroyed those products complained by customers many times.
In September this year, Wal-Mart also announced that suppliers selling leafy vegetables will be required to join this food production and marketing blockchain ecosystem in the future.
For IBM, the food industry is just an outpost for them to use blockchain technology. After all, the number of patents applied by IBM in blockchain technology ranks first in the world, just like Alibaba, an e-commerce company in China.