A FOOD SAFETY AND TRACEABILITY SYSTEM BASED ON RFID TECHNOLOGIES AND SERVICES

摘要

Worldwide, foodborne diseases are an important cause of mortality. There is a strong need to strengthen surveillance systems for foodborne diseases. Traceability is an increasingly common element of public and private systems for monitoring compliance with quality,environmental, and other product and process attributes related to food. The key issue to add values on traceability is to integrate the traceability system with the supply-chain management processes, by integrating small-scale farmers-producers in the food supply-chain through ICTs. In this paper, we introduce a traceability system based on RFID technology and Internet of Things.