The UK’s
Food Standards Agency (FSA) completed a blockchain pilot at a cattle slaughterhouse. In the first phase the slaughterhouse and the FSA had permission to access the data. The plan is to include additional locations and to bring in the farmers so they can see their own data as well.
Sian Thomas, Head of Information Management, said:
“This is a really exciting development. We thought that blockchain technology might add real value to a part of the food industry, such as a slaughterhouse, whose work requires a lot of inspection and collation of results.”
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