National Fisheries Institute, IBM Food Trust partner to increase seafood transparency
IBM’s system ensures companies can set rules about who can see the data they upload, for how long and that they maintain control of their data even after it has been uploaded to Food Trust.
The National Fisheries Institute (NFI), Washington, D.C., announced plans to work with IBM’s Food Trust, a blockchain-enabled system, to begin a comprehensive seafood supply chain traceability pilot program. The work is said to be the first multi-company and seafood species effort.
“We are excited that NFI and the real seafood value chain will test IBM’s technology,” says John Connelly, president of NFI. “NFI members’ supply chains are dynamic and wide reaching, a fertile ground for this type of pilot.”