Ensuring Food Safety Through Blockchain

Abstract

Food safety is a most highlighted area in today’s fast-food world as many health problems such as diarrhea, vomiting, typhoid, and food poisoning can be happened by consuming those contaminated packed foods. Hence, every possible detail of a packed food item must be placed in a supply chain management (SCM) to trace the path of the food item before delivery. Blockchain technology can be used to track the records of the journey of a packed food item from the manufactured time to the delivery time of the packet. In this paper, we have proposed a model based on blockchain technology (BT) to trace food items through various stages of supply chain management. Security analysis discussed in the paper proved that this chain will achieve the desired level of security in this area.