2019-06-24 Meeting notes

Date

Jun 25, 2019

Attendees

• @Marco Carvalho @Ben Taylor @Christian.Winzeler @Baiju Jacob @jeff stollman Mukul, Matt, 

Meeting minutes

• Introductions

  • Baiju

    • Focus on technology

    • Frameworks for traceability

  • Christian W.

    • F&B consulting

    • Standardization

    • Challenges participating/adopting

  • Jeff Stollman

    • Focus on tech

    • IoT background

    • Governance

    • Interoperability

  • Ben Taylor

    • LedgerDomain – compliance apps

    • Drug supply chain

    • Previous experience in food supply chain

  • Matt

    • Track/trace

    • Sawtooth

    • Pharma supply chain background

    • Real-world practical implementation of Blockchain

  • Mukul

    • Looking to contribute

Scope discussion

• Traceability, transparency, and visibility in the food supply system

  • Current available traceability systems in terms of breadth, depth, and precision

• Cold chain management and the increasing complexity of the food supply chain system, IoT

  • IoT devices used to track metrics

  • Keep within ranges

  • Algorithms unique by products

  • Limitation on sensor for unique needs

  • Active vs Passive

    • Active

      • Expensive

      • Cannot go on airplanes

    • Passive

      • Once arrived

    • Challenges:

      • Lacking cost affective maturity

      • Very little integration between existing IoT sensors

      • Air transit (active not possible)

      • Cannot consistently measure spoilage

    • Use cases

      • Cola (F&B)

        • Syrups have to stay within a certain temp range

        • Depending the temp, can change on chemical composition

        • Issue: truckers turn off heat units – not easy to prove

      • Produce

        • Issue: truck in high temp for too long

        • Affects shelf life based on temp

      • Desires

        • Presentations

          • Zest – Christian has the info

            • Using analytics to optimize order fulfillment

          • Maritime IoT tracking

• Current global industry regulations on food safety and fraud

  • Need more info on this

  • Regulatory bodies

    • Every country can be unique

    • US - FDA

    • Europe – EFSA

    • Others? (Asia, Africa, etc)

    • International?

• Food product recall practices

  • TBD

• Drivers for food safety standards

  • TBD

• Food product authenticity and product certification

  • TBD

• Integration and interoperability

  • Challenges

    • Within same framework (Fabric to Fabric)

    • Framework to Framework (Fabric to Sawtooth to Ethereum)

    • Even if can connect then what about the data model?

Goals

Discussion items

Action items