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Blockchain technology and traceability in the agrifood industry
Author(s) -
Patelli Niccolò,
Mandrioli Mauro
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of food science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1750-3841
pISSN - 0022-1147
DOI - 10.1111/1750-3841.15477
Subject(s) - traceability , blockchain , immutability , supply chain , transparency (behavior) , scalability , distributed ledger , identification (biology) , computer science , trace (psycholinguistics) , business , order (exchange) , risk analysis (engineering) , industrial organization , commerce , computer security , database , marketing , software engineering , linguistics , philosophy , botany , finance , biology
Distributed ledgers are becoming commonly used technologies to trace agrifood supply chains in view of their safety, immutability, transparency, and scalability. In the present review, we discuss the most relevant case studies of agrifood supply chain traceability using blockchain (BC) and other distributed ledgers technologies. Considering that each supply chain actually has specific requests of traceability, we here suggest a logical scheme in order to favor the identification of the BC structure that is more appropriate for each agrifood supply chain, including the identification of supply chains where complex BC technologies are actually not necessary.