U.S. to Check IBM Blockchain for Agricultural Food Exports
IBM is seriously designing a blockchain proof-of-concept (PoC) for an agency of the USDA called the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), which will enable it to assess how distributed ledger technology (DLT) can fully enhance important regulation services especially export certification systems, reports Coin Idol.
As revealed by the FSIS representative, huge sums of money which is more than $269,450 has been dedicated for blockchain and DLT viability assessment and will discover productivities, effectiveness, and competence in an exercise blemished by rules and frequent multifaceted, multi-territory documented rations.
The agency is accountable at confirming that the U.S.’s agricultural products such as exported beef, chicken, and other poultry products are satisfactorily up to the required grades; and this implies that inspecting the products against the set national standards, and to the standards of the where the goods are to be exported to. This project is one part of the USDA’s import-export innovation program, as indicated in the 2020 Yearly Plan.
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