In April 2019, the world's tenth-largest commercial food retailer, Albertsons (https://stores.org/stores-top-retailers-2018/), announced its involvement in IBM's Food Trust Blockchain to launch a pilot for tracking romaine lettuce, hence joining 79 other brands to the consortium such as Walmart, Nestle, and Unilever. The IBM Food Trust Blockchain is a modular and collaborative network solution gathering economic actors and aiming to tackle major problems within the commercial food chain, such as being able to identify the origin of dodgy products, the primary source of diseases and sanitary scandals, and enabling removal of infected products from retailers' stores without clearing the whole supply chain.
In the food industry, focus on safety is a priority and the traceability of a product has become paramount. In this context, many food producers, suppliers...