IOTA Foundation announced a partnership with Primority, a digital food safety management company that helps food product manufacturers monitor food safety in food supply chains. The foundation announced about the partnership on the Twitter official account.
IOTA Partners with @primority to Ensure Allergen Food Safety Using Distributed Ledger Technology. 220 Million People Worldwide Live with Food Allergies. New Technology Aims to Minimize Threat of Potentially Fatal Food Allergens.https://t.co/ndxNaYHddM#IOTA #foodsafety pic.twitter.com/M8gqqyJRaM
— IOTA (@iotatoken) June 20, 2019
The collaboration includes a prototype app development allowing consumers to effortlessly check what allergens the food product contains using blockchain technology.
In particular, the app will be based on IOTA’s unalterable distributed ledger protocol Tangle, and integrated with Primority’s 3iVerify platform. Consequently, this will lead to the information collected from manufacturers be automatically shared on IOTA’s Tangle.
Thereby, the app will reportedly allow consumers have access to a number of details about food products by scanning a bar-code on the app. The shared information can contain tracking of raw materials used and their suppliers, along with a review of food production processes. In the announcement, IOTA underlined that consumers will have access to the data without sharing any type of personal, sensitive information, and without owning any crypto coin.
It’s worth to mention that IOTA is a non-profit foundation focused on distributed ledger technology (DLT) and open-source ecosystem development.
