Initiatives such as the IBM Food Trust are trying to use blockchain to help improve food safety, which has been a particularly prominent problem this year. Brigid McDermott, Vice President of the IBM Food Trust described food safety as "an ecosystem issue. Launched in August 2017, the IBM Food Trust is one example of using blockchain to help with food safety and utilizes the IBM Blockchain Platform. As Albright indicated, food safety is not the reason to implement blockchain in a food supply chain. Nowadays with so many food supply chains extending globally, your food could have many more frequent flier miles than you.

Source: Forbes November 28, 2018 14:32 UTC