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Not Ethereum, but using HyperLedger fabric: "Last year, Yiannas asked his team to trace a package of sliced mangoes back to their source. He says it took them
by illumin8 8y ago
Not Ethereum, but using HyperLedger fabric:
"Last year, Yiannas asked his team to trace a package of sliced mangoes back to their source. He says it took them six days, 18 hours, and 26 minutes. After Walmart used the software developed with IBM to track mangoes from a farm in Mexico to U.S. stores over a 30-day period, the same exercise took a mere 2.2 seconds."
https://newfoodeconomy.org/blockchain-food-traceability-walmart-ibm/ https://newfoodeconomy.org/blockchain-food-traceability-walm...
If you don't think immutable distributed ledgers won't help improve food safety, among thousands of other use cases, you probably haven't been paying attention to the current E. Coli outbreak in the US where the FDA has no idea where the contaminated food is coming from:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/04/23/source-of-e-coli-contaminated-romaine-lettuce-still-a-mystery-fda-says/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/0...