Abstract
In order to effectively detect and prevent food safety issues and track responsibilities, it is indispensable to establish a reliable traceable system. Accurate recording, sharing and tracking of specific data in food production, processing, warehousing, transportation and retailing is particularly important throughout the food supply chain. This paper proposes a safe food traceable scheme based on blockchain and EPC technology. Encoding food by EPC technology, using the Ethernet block chain and smart contract to effectively execute transactions, manage all transactions among participants involved in the supply chain ecosystem, to track and trace food in the entire agricultural supply chain. In addition, a data management system structure combining on-chain and off-chain is proposed, which uses IPFS to store data under the chain, to alleviate the data explosion in the block chain of the Internet of Things. Which provide safe, efficient and transparent food traceable scheme.
This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 61772099, 61772098); the Program for Innovation Team Building at Institutions of Higher Education in Chongqing (Grant No. CXTDG201602010); Chongqing Science and Technology Innovation Leadership Support Program (Grant No. CSTCCXLJRC201917); the University Outstanding Achievements Transformation Funding Project of Chongqing (Grant No. KJZH17116); the Artificial Intelligence Technology Innovation Important Subject Projects of Chongqing (cstc2017rgzn-zdyf0140); The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Demonstration Team Cultivation Plan of Chongqing (cstc2017kjrc-cxcytd0063); the Chongqing Research Program of Basic Research and Frontier Technology (Grant No. cstc2017jcyjAX0270, Grant No. cstc2018jcyjA0672, Grant No. cstc2017jcyjAX0071); the Industry Important Subject Projects of Chongqing (Grant No. CSTC2018JSZX-CYZTZX0178, Grant No. CSTC2018JSZX-CYZTZX0185).
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Huang, H., Zhou, X., Liu, J. (2019). Food Supply Chain Traceability Scheme Based on Blockchain and EPC Technology. In: Qiu, M. (eds) Smart Blockchain. SmartBlock 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11911. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34083-4_4
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