Farm-to-fork seafood traceability in quest of enabling food safety
Timestamp. Transparency. Preventing double-spending on farms. Seafood traceability is finishing its job in ensuring quality from farm to table. With innovation, seafood traceability will help importers, customs officials, retailers, and others trace seafood traded globally. This solution can shed light on production modes with significant environmental and social impacts. Let’s consider the following shrimp traceability example. The pressing need for a shrimp traceability system As the world population grows, depending on fishing alone will not produce enough shrimp needed to supply. In the US alone, shrimp is the most consumed seafood with about 4 lbs per capita, about 25% of the seafood consumed in the US per capita. So most countries are turning to aquaculture to avoid dependence on fishing. Shrimp farms have continuously formed around the world, and more and more countries are farming and exporting Shrimp and other aquatic products. About 90% of the shrimp consumed in...