Food safety risks occur along the food chain from a number of biological and chemical contaminants. In addition, malpractices or fraudulent practices could also lead to increased food safety risks. Currently, there are big limitations for implementing a global food integrity system which controls safety, authenticity, ethics, fraud, traceability and quality: the food value chain is not fully sensorised yet, available sensors are not always designed to work in an IoT environment, the information provided is neither available online or digitalised and, consequently, the information integrated through the food value chain is not enough to guarantee its reliability. Taking advantage of the increasing level of digitalisation in the food value chain, the agri-food sector is in a good momentum to explore the potential of Blockchain Technologies for food integrity purposes.
TrustEat promotes the application of Blockchain technology to the food value chain to increase the reliability of a new food system.
The project links the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory – INL (Portugal) with the leading international institutions Wageningen University and Research – WUR (Netherlands) and IBM Research (Switzerland).
Together we will increase the excellence of INL´s scientific production and strengthen partners’ research in the area of food blockchain, capturing future opportunities of joint research and marketable solutions.