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How Blockchain can Improve Food Safety in China’s Swine Industry
By Chih-Chieh Chang, Analyst GFSF Situation In 2016, IBM, Walmart, and Tsinghua University in Beijing scaled up a pilot project to examine how blockchain can increase food traceability and transparency. Using IBM’s Linux Foundation blockchain-based Hyperledger technology, they found that blockchain can shorten the time to trace swine products’ information. For example, it would only […]
Continue readingNuclear techniques applied in agro-food quality and safety control in China
Carlos Carbone This article will present some of the latest trends studied by Chinese researchers for food traceability using nuclear techniques. Stable isotope analysis for agro-food provenance verification and authenticity discrimination This technique focuses on the use of isotopic fingerprinting techniques for food traceability. It’s becoming a reliable tool for this, due to the […]
Continue readingChina’s Demonstration Supermarkets to Set Best Practices in Food Safety
Yushuang Sun China has been engulfed in food safety crises as a litany of food safety incidents unveiled regulatory loopholes and severely undermined consumer confidence in the domestic food market. Amid the turmoil, the country has attempted to revamp its institutional and legal frameworks over the past five years. In 2013, the China […]
Continue readingGFSF-CCIC PARTNERSHIP / GFSF-CCIC合作伙伴关系
GFSF (www.globalfoodsafetyforum.org ) and CCIC (http://www.ccic.com/web/static/catalogs/catalog_english/english.html) are proud to announce their collaboration for future food safety activities. Our collaboration will focus on activities underway in China for 2017-2018. CCIC is a leading inspection, certification, and testing service provider. Their inspection services include pre-shipment and consumer product inspection; certification services include product, management and international […]
Continue readingGLOBAL FOOD SAFETY EVENT CALENDAR
11th FoodHACCP Food Safety Conference November 15 – 16, 2017, Las Vegas, Nevada 2017 Food Safety Consortium November 28 – December 1, 2017, Schaumburg, Illinois 20th International Conference on Food Safety and Packaging Technologies January 29 – 30, 2018, Sydney, Australia GFSI Global Food Safety Conference March 5 – 8, 2018, Tokyo, Japan Food Ingredients China March 22- […]
Continue readingChina Adopts Tightened Rules Governing Food Safety Online and Retail Food Sectors
Yushuang Sun Online food ordering and delivery services have brought significant changes to the farm-to-fork food supply chain in China. According to a report released by China’s largest restaurant food delivery platform, Meituan-Dianping, food delivery revenues tripled in 2016 to RMB 130 billion (USD 20 billion) and have the potential to reach RMB 300 […]
Continue readingEU and China Jointly Tackle Food Fraud
Yushuang Sun With the rapid development of food and chemical industries, use of new materials, booming global trade and the resulting complexity in food supply chains, food fraud has become a global issue. Over the past decade, scandals related to adulterated and fake food have made international headlines and generated waves of consumer backlash. […]
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