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The figures could be a little beyond their expiration date, but in 2010 the Food Producers Association put the cost of food fraud, including counterfeiting and economically motivated adulteration, at over $ 10 billion – a significant sum in what was then $ 2.1-trillion of industries.
To protect customers and support claims on the quality of their products, supermarket chains must be able to trace the origin of the ingredients through the supply chain to the farm.
Carrefour, a French supermarket chain with 12.300 stores in over 30 countries, has worked for years on the traceability of food products with an ad hoc mix of information stored in its ERP systems and those of its suppliers, as well as on paper and in banks auditor data. Now the company is making data more accessible by migrating them to a blockchain.
With information sparse on various systems, it may take up to two days to get all the details of a specific set of products from a food processor or a distributor, but these days consumers want certainty at the touch of a button or scan of a QR code.
