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Blockchain systems are tracking food safety and origins

  • Written by Nir Kshetri, Professor of Management, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
Blockchain systems are tracking food safety and originsIt looks good, but where did this pork come from?Artem Shadrin

When a Chinese consumer buys a package labeled “Australian beef,” there’s only a 50-50 chance the meat inside is, in fact, Australian beef. It could just as easily contain rat, dog, horse or camel meat – or a mixture of them all. It’s gross and dangerous,...

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