Part IV: Report on IDTechEx Food Traceability 2006
2006年2月24天
"Creating Value through Whole Chain Traceability" was the topic of
Stein Onsrud, CEO, TraceTracker, USA/Norway. He exposed the global traceability drivers and challenges, business benefits through global traceability and some examples of whole chain traceability projects. He advised on implementing global traceability solutions.
"Challenges of Cargo Loss Prevention in the Food Industry" primarily meant problems with temperature recording apparatur in trucks and liabilities arising for Ray Flemming, Director of Cargo Loss Prevention, Frozen Food Express Industries, Inc., USA
Frozen Food Express Industries, Inc. is the largest publicly-owned, temperature-controlled carrier of perishable goods in North America. He gave good advice that should be heeded by the many RFID companies offering or about to offer time temperature recording labels and modules for food transportation. For example, corrugated cardboard is such a good insulator that there is no substitute for putting the temperature probe directly into the food, even though that damaged pack must then be discarded at the end of the journey.
On the second day, Chairman: Dr. Charles R. Hurburgh, Jr., Professor, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering and Professor in Charge, Iowa Grain Quality Initiative, USA convinced us that traceability of grain is the toughest challenge of all because of all the mixing that inevitably happens. He showed how his research students are helping to come up with some solutions.
The interests of Prof Hurburgh include the value added to grain through quality specification and traceability. He manages the ISU Grain Quality Research Laboratory and coordinates the Iowa Grain Quality Initiative, an extension information program created to support the development of value-added grains.
Dr Peter Harrop, Chairman IDTechEx shared "Lessons from over Case Studies of Radio Frequency Identification RFID used in the Food Chain in 30 Countries", the data being obtained from the unique IDTechEx Knowledgebse of over 1700 case studies of RFID in action in 68 countries. www.rfidbase.com
Surprisingly, this is mainly about rollouts proceeding and completed for both food and livestock, not trials.
He covered
- RFID tagging food in restaurants, supermarkets, the cold chain, food conveyances
- RFID tagging livestock and farming
- The main benefits, costs, frequencies, suppliers etc that are emerging
One example of this is:
He also dealt with:
- Successes and failures
- Experience of RFID combined with condition monitoring on food and on livestock
- IDTechEx forecasts for adoption of RFID on food items, food pallets/ cases and livestock 2005-2015 by number and dollar value
The IDTechEx conference Food Traceability 2006, held on February 1-2 2006 in Dallas, USA, was a great success with attendance from 13 countries. There was a consensus that track, trace and identify are merging as both sciences and needs. Requirements and executions before and after the farm gate are also becoming seamless. These barriers are rapidly breaking down. New sources of data such as RFID, 2D barcodes and widespread DNA analysis are creating a challenge in the sheer volume of data generated. www.trackingfood.com 
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