Food traceability, a use of blockchain that is essential for Neogen

The IBM Food Trust platform is not the only one of interest to companies in the food industry. The American Neogen adopts technology blockchain of Ripe Technology for diagnoses of Food Safety and animal genomics.

Uses of blockchain in the food industry are growing. According to Juniper Research, the interest of manufacturers is financially justified. He indeed estimates the $ 31 billion blockchain savings on food fraud globally by 2024.

Fight fraud, and also reassure consumers. For the American group Neogen, the " blockchain has enormous potential in the food and livestock sectors, both to verify the authenticity of premium products, such as caged chicken eggs, and to improve the traceability of problems that require a fix, such as those that result in product recalls. "

Connect food data to optimize decisions

Neogen therefore plans to exploit this technology for customers of its activities dedicated to Food Safety. To offer additional services in this area, the company is partnering with a blockchain startup, Ripe Technology (Ripe.io).

The genomic profile of a dairy cow could be connected to the food the animal consumes, its medical history, the environment in the barn, the quantity and quality of the milk it produces, etc. The blockchain can be used to optimize the entire supply chains of many markets served by Neogen, ”Explains its managing director, John Adent.

To establish such diagnoses and offer recommendations to its customers, the manufacturer uses large volumes of data. He recently launched a data analysis platform. The blockchain will not be integrated into it at first. This project is the second step.

By automating and connecting several data points through diagnostic tests in a production facility, the food security data analysis platform allows food producers and processors to use their data to create an image full of risk areas that can guide operational decisions, ”said Neogen.