Yesterday the
Sustainable Shrimp Partnership announced that it is participating in
IBM’s Food Trust blockchain ecosystem. This new initiative will provide food traceability for SSP’s shrimps throughout the supply chain, enabling retailers and consumers to trace their shrimps back to its source.
The new platform leverages blockchain technology to improve accountability and transparency for customers, providing information for the whole journey of SSP’s premium Ecuadorian farmed shrimp production.
“Food fraud is on the rise,” stated Jose Antonio Camposano, Executive President of the National Chamber of Aquaculture of Ecuador. “Consumers have a right to know where their food is from and how it was produced. By using blockchain technology we can provide complete traceability on our products and our practices – for the first time consumers can have complete trust and assurance on what they are buying.”
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