'Food Traceability System' Going Global
'Food Traceability System' Going Global
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Super High Touch Co., Ltd. Global interest shown in Korea's food supply chain traceability technology As Super High Touch Co., Ltd. (www.shtouch.com) has successfully implemented its "Food traceability system" for the Seoul metropolitan area and plans to implement the system in the European Union (EU) and Korea Ministry of Health and Welfare, this system is attracting international interest regarding whether it may actually improve food safety and quality by computerizing the food supply chain traceability from farm to store.
To transfer its food traceability service experience and technology to the EU and establish a network where Seoul City can share the system with the EU for international food traceability service to improve food safety and quality, its developer Super High Touch has submitted a proposal for the European Commission regarding "Dynamic Supply Chain Management by Time Barcode‰ System for Food Traceability (DSCM-TB) through a consortium that represents Seoul Metropolitan Government and Samsung SDS. CEO & CTO of Super High Touch, Tak Seung-Ho Ph.D, explains: "The system provides consumers with comprehensive information about food, including food history, food contents/ingredient, country of origin, temperature history during transportation and storage. The system can be used for diversified food products such as agriculture product, livestock product, marine product whether they are fresh or processed." As dynamic supply chain management solution provider, Super High Touch has realized GAP (Good Agricultural Practice) and GMP(Good Manufacture Practice) by constructing Dynamic SCM system to the Korea Ginseng Company (KGC) for the first time in the world on the basis of intellectual property rights the company holds in 107 countries at home and abroad as of 2005. From May, 2005, the company has its Dynamic Supply Chain Management projects under way with companies like Pulmuone, Orga whole foods organic store, 7- Eleven CVS and so forth and is planning to preoccupy in earnest this market on the basis of the success examples of such established businesses. With its food traceability system implemented, Dr.Tak underscores that in a nutshell, consumers as well as food authorities can retrieve comprehensive information about food such as country of origin, manufacture, manufacturing process, ingredients, storage/transportation temperature and expiry date. He further notes that Dynamic SCM is bringing a big revolution to production, circulation, and sales of food by leveraging Time Barcode and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification). Major revolution to production, circulation, and sales of food For example, Dr.Tak said that DSCM with Time Barcode offers benefits to all parties in the food industry, as well as consumers, adding that with DSCM implemented, manufacturers can monitor stocks by store and by time elapsed and can prevent over/ undersupply. He pointed out: "You can not avoid oversupply with conventional barcode and computer database system, because conventional barcode based computer database system can not tell you the stock by elapsed time. This is the reason why average 4 percent of food is wasted every year every countries included in Korea. DSCM will enable you to lower this food 4 percent waste rate to 1 percent." Dr.Tak, who emphasizes that the company developed and commercialized the new technology in Korea combining a cutting-edge IT technology and infrastructure in the most economical and efficient way, stressed that the object of Super High Touch DSCM is to implement food traceability system that supports legacy system with low system cost. The most important thing is that currently, 1 percent of the 6 billion people worldwide, or 60 million people are suffering from hunger. The CEO said: "If we decrease the food waste rate from 4 percent to 1 percent and donate food to help those in needs, we can resolve both hunger issue and traceability of food item at the same time."
Dynamic Supply Chain Management Application cases with Time Barcode Case study #1: Imported French wine traceability project in Korea Since 2005, several French wine importers have had a wine traceability project in Korea with Time Barcode and Active RFID Black Box.
Wines such as Bordeaux and Burgundy imported from France to Korea via container ship, need a minimum of about 35 days in the container. The container temperature of 70 ~ 80 Celsius degrees during when the ship passes the equator during summer time. If the wine passed the equator more than 7 days at the hot season, then the wine would be changed to vinegar because of high temperatures and ship's rolling. Wine consumers cannot identify before opening the cork of a bottle of wine, whether or not it is good. If someone is a collector of gives a gift of French wine to another person, then he wants to know the shipping temperature graph history during shipment from France to Korea. With the shipping of wine since October 2005, all of the wine now comes attached with the Time Barcode, the wine box or pallet locked with Active RFID Black Box. The Active RFID Black Box would be recorded from wine manufacturing processing temperature to shipping and arrival temperature etc. All of the Active RFID Black Box data transferred to database per lot of delivery. In the wine store (Enotica Galleria Department Store in Apgujung, Seoul) , the France wine with time barcode could be verified with FIVE (Food Information Verifier and Evaluator) terminal via database of delivery temperature, rolling of shipment, ultra violet or sunshine from direct ray of sun or light, etc. In a luxury restaurant, someone orders a France Bordeaux wine, so the wine sommelier brings the customer a bottle of wine with PDA. The wine sommelier would be able to have verified customer delivery and storage temperature and wine processing data attached time barcode on the bottle of label with PDA scanner before the cork stopper opening. Consumer could choose according to the evaluated history of the wine that has traveled from France to the restaurant. If some wine exceeded the temperature range or suffered from rolling or direct rays of the sun etc., then customer could check the red graph of the shipping period. The French wine would have a comparative advantage of its traceability system with Time Barcode label on the bottle of wine and active RFID black box. Case Study #2: KGC Time barcode Since 2004, KGC has Dynamic Supply Chain Management with Time Barcode for red-ginseng product traceability system from farming to manufacturing, using Time barcode and RFID tag technology. As many as 450 Ginseng stores have installed the Time Barcode system, and all kind of red ginseng products attached Time Barcode labels, which verifies all kinds of history, from farm to store, who cultivated it, which farm, date, and agricultural chemical or not, manure or not, cross-checked inspection data etc. by the GAP and GMP regulations. All of the processing of red-ginseng from farm to factory by basket attached RFID, washing basket RFID, boiling basket RFID, sorting basket RFID, extract box RFID input to database. In the final packaging stage a database is issued with the Time Barcode for item level per lot. Korea Ginseng is a very famous item not only in Korea, but also global markets in China, the EU and the United States. But, there is so much counterfeit red Ginseng in China. About 90 percent of red Ginseng might be counterfeit. So, Korean red Ginseng is now attached with RFID tags for authentication as true red Ginseng with off-line hand-held terminal internal crypto secure access modules.

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