U.S. berry producer California Giant Berry Farms joined the blockchain-based food tracking solution IBM Food Trust.

Fruit and vegetable news outlet The Packer reported on May 17 that California Giant will use a blockchain to share information between all the points of its supply concatenation. The firm employs Glassbit's Glasschain IBM Food Trust integration compliance as a service solution.

According to California Behemothic's senior director of operations Thomas Taggart, the integration with IBM's blockchain network will allow the business firm and its partners to find ways to improve the efficiency of product transportation. Senior manager of global nutrient safety at Walmart, Tejas Bhatt, besides praised the integration:

"This enables us to track food from farm to store and helps ensure it is fresh and safe when our customers buy it."

According to company data website Owler, California Behemothic has an estimated annual revenue of $62.6 million and employs 103 people.

Blockchain sees increasing use in food tracking

Supply chain tracking is one of the virtually active areas of blockchain technology implementation, presumably because its immutability is particularly valuable in such applications. The food industry seems particularly interested in such developments because of the high-pressure on ensuring that products falling in the category are condom for consumption when they achieve the shelves.

Every bit Cointelegraph reported in belatedly April, world'due south largest producer of fruit and vegetables Dole Food Visitor released a five-yr plan to expand its adoption of distributed ledger applied science.