{"id":8444,"date":"2017-08-22T12:58:33","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T12:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/ibm-kroger-walmart-and-others-team-up-to-improve-food-safety-with-blockchains.html"},"modified":"2017-08-22T12:58:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T12:58:33","slug":"ibm-kroger-walmart-and-others-team-up-to-improve-food-safety-with-blockchains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/ibm-kroger-walmart-and-others-team-up-to-improve-food-safety-with-blockchains.html","title":{"rendered":"IBM, Kroger, Walmart and others team up to improve food safety with blockchains"},"content":{"rendered":"


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IBM today announced that it is working with a consortium that includes\u00a0Dole, Golden State Foods, Kroger, McCormick and Company, Nestl\u00e9,\u00a0Tyson Foods, Unilever and Walmart to bring the benefit of blockchains to the food supply chain.<\/p>\n

IBM, just like most of its competitors in the public cloud computing space, has been working on various blockchain projects<\/a> in the last few months.<\/p>\n

Given the complexity of the food supply chain from producer to consumer, blockchains could actually find a pretty interesting niche here because they would allow for more transparency and traceability (especially when things go wrong). The idea behind this project and the collaboration between these different companies is to figure out where exactly blockchains can benefit the food ecosystem.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlockchain technology enables a new era of end-to-end transparency in the global food system \u2014 equivalent to shining a light on food ecosystem participants that will further promote responsible actions and behaviors,\u201d writes Frank Yiannas, Walmart\u2019s VP for food safety, in today\u2019s announcement. \u201cIt also allows all participants to share information rapidly and with confidence across a strong trusted network.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, IBM\u2019s Blockchain Platform will form the basis for much of this work. It supports the Linux Foundation\u2019s Hyperledger Fabric and Hyperledger Composer<\/a>\u00a0technologies for building blockchain-based applications.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s interesting to see how a number of the large players are now working to bring blockchains to the enterprise. Earlier this month, for example, Microsoft launched a new project<\/a> to make blockchains ready for the enterprise, too, for example. Earlier this year, an IBM study<\/a> also found that a third of enterprises are now looking into how this technology can benefit their business.<\/p>\n

Correction<\/strong>:\u00a0We previously included Costco as part of this consortium. The company was mentioned in an early press release but not in the final version. We regret this error and have commenced self-flagellation.<\/em><\/p>\n

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