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Leveraging digital supply chain technologies—like blockchain, AI, and other solutions—can help importers comply with FDA's Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP) more efficiently and effectively, while also improving supply chain transparency and reducing the risk of food safety incidents.

Fresh Del Monte has invested a stake in Decapolis to provide end-to-end traceability for Fresh Del Monte’s food products, with plans to make the platform available to other businesses.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) hosted a webinar this week regarding digital information and traceability systems.

Blockchain is often the tool of choice by food industry companies in improving food safety.

Blockchain technology allows retailers, suppliers and anyone who has access to the software, to have real-time information on a product’s origination and the stops it made along the way before it reaches its destination. However, when it comes to olive oil, blockchain can be useful in determining provenance and delivery path, but not the purity or freshness of the product.

GS1 US has published a new guideline titled “Applying GS1 Standards for Supply Chain Visibility in Blockchain Applications,” an educational resource that can help industry enable supply chain visibility in blockchain implementations by leveraging GS1 Standards.