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Recently, many food scandals broke out one after another in India and people are appalled. After these intimidated incidents, people are now more concerned about food safety. These issues not only harm consumer’s health but also it debilitates their trust in food markets. Since the current food logistics pattern is not meeting the need and demand for the food market, building a secure and reliable food traceability system has become a necessity. Tracing food supply chain is the process of tracking the movement of a particular food item in the entire process. This paper covers the blockchain- and QR code-based food traceability system, merits and demerits of decentralized systems, and finally, the building process of the proposed system. The proposed system will provide traceability, transparency, efficiency, reliability, and security through all the stages of a food supply chain. Distributed ledgers and decentralized systems play a key role in building this application as its key features are immutability, transparency, consensus, disintermediation and distributed ledgers, and smart contracts.
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Mishra, N., Mistry, S., Choudhary, S., Kudu, S., Mishra, R. (2020). Food Traceability System Using Blockchain and QR Code. In: Patel, D., et al. IC-BCT 2019. Blockchain Technologies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4542-9_4
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