Overview
- Product/commodity specific traceability information
- Identification of approaches and challenges for different points in the supply chain including farmers, processors, distributors and retailers
- Articulation of the benefits system-wide traceability brings to consumers, industry, and public health agencies
- Discussion of how drivers such as blockchain intersect with existing traceability approaches
Part of the book series: Food Microbiology and Food Safety (FMFS)
Part of the book sub series: Practical Approaches (PRACT)
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Table of contents(12 chapters)
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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United Fresh Produce Association, Washington, DC, USA
Jennifer McEntire
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Institute of Food Technologists, Global Food Traceability Center, Chicago, USA
Andrew W. Kennedy
About the editors
Andrew Kennedy is a leading voice in the world of food traceability, sustainability and food safety. He has developed supplier transparency and traceability solutions for leading restaurant operators, retailers and food companies using cloud and Blockchain technology. As the Interim Director of the Global Food Traceability Center at IFT, he is a leader of industry-wide initiatives to implement food traceability in seafood and produce.
Mr. Kennedy serves as a board member and chair of the Science and Technology committee of the Produce Marketing Association; has co-chaired several national and global food traceability technology standards initiatives; and led FoodLogiQ’s successful participation in the FDA Food Traceability Pilot. He has worked with food producers on four continents and across the United States.
Prior to FoodLogiQ, Mr. Kennedy served in leadership roles in a medical device manufacturing companyand worked as a technology consultant with Accenture and Clarkston Consulting. He lives in Durham, North Carolina and holds an MBA from Duke University and a BA in Economics from Lafayette College.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Food Traceability
Book Subtitle: From Binders to Blockchain
Editors: Jennifer McEntire, Andrew W. Kennedy
Series Title: Food Microbiology and Food Safety
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10902-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10900-4Published: 22 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-10902-8Published: 11 May 2019
Series ISSN: 2629-1010
Series E-ISSN: 2629-1029
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 198
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Food Science, Food Microbiology, Public Health