DeeCert — Use case #4 — Food industry

Deepit AG
4 min readNov 3, 2019

In this article, we will analyse the multiple possibilities of using the DeeCert Protocol in one of the most important economic field, the food industry.

Large number of blockchain projects are oriented to this particular use case.

However one must understand that, due to the human factor in the food industry, blockchain alone can’t create 100% certainty about the quality of a product or its supply chain.

Problem is in the fact that information contained in the document, which is declaration of quality of the product, can be mystified at the origin.

Blockchain can only give eternity to these contents.

Thanks to the technologies currently available, however, some information can be detected and acquired in a completely “trustless” way, therefore in full accordance with the criteria that are the basis of the blockchain.

For example, with drones we can take samples of air over a certain plantation to detect the presence of pesticides or harmful elements, and we can repeat the process any time in order to obtain continuous information on a certain lot of cultivation.

As we move forward in the production chain (of a food-delete, it is already understood that it is food production chain), there is a lot of information that can be…

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