Food Safety news and trends

Why Walmart Says Blockchain Can Improve Food Safety
Blockchain // September 27, 2018

Origins are all the rage in modern life: origin stories, family origins via DNA and digital ancestry databases. Add to that Walmart’s latest effort to gain more grocery market share: using blockchain technology to trace the origin of the food sold by the retailer back...

IBM, Food Companies To Increase Food Safety With Blockchain
Safety and Security // August 23, 2017

IBM’s project to explore blockchain technology to track food supply and improve safety has some new big-name partners, including Nestle, Unilever and Tyson Foods among others. In a press release Tuesday (Aug. 22) IBM announced the blockchain collaboration, saying the new partners are aimed at...

QSRs Recovering From Food Scares – Can It Be Done?
ResTech // August 10, 2017

In the restaurant business, dirty hands are a deal-breaker. Just ask Chipotle, which has been subpoenaed after the most recent norovirus outbreak in one of its Virginia restaurants. Case in point: it’s never a good thing when the public and media are referring to a...

Chipotle Subpoenaed In Virginia Norovirus Outbreak
Retail // July 27, 2017

The ast few years have not been kind to the Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurant chain. From 10,000 employees accusing it of wage theft late last year to multiple food contamination outbreaks and hackers stealing customer information, Chipotle has been hit hard. The latest blow to...

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Farming’s AI, Data Driven (And Vertical) Tech Revolution

February 13, 2020
Farming has been around for thousands of years – tens of thousands of years, perhaps, according to some estimates. And it is a labor-intensive, resource-intensive and time-consuming endeavor.  Consider the fact that, as measured by the Water Footprint Network, it takes about 26 gallons to make one pound of tomatoes, and 67 gallons of water […]

Why Walmart Says Blockchain Can Improve Food Safety

September 27, 2018
Origins are all the rage in modern life: origin stories, family origins via DNA and digital ancestry databases. Add to that Walmart’s latest effort to gain more grocery market share:...