IBM Platform Equals Fresh Food

Food you purchase from the market has roughly 1 week worth of shelf life. Stores have no way of knowing the history of the food they buy. The food in fact might have been exposed to Bacteria causing illness. An E.Coli event happened in the U.S. It took the FDA 90 days to find the source. A similar situation occurred with an Salmonella outbreak. The origin of this event was never found. Super Markets are now using an Open, Distributed network of individualized computers that hold bundles of files known as "Blocks". Since the individual computers known as nodes are connected to a larger network the "Blocks" of files are said to be "Chained" together. This BlockChain concept is very hard to hack and as a result highly secure networks like this are called Blockchains. Think Cryptocurrencies if you want to imagine the security surrounding the BlockChain concept. This approach to a secure network is implemented by IBM and intends to save food product companies 10's of millions of dollars. Walmart, Kroger, Dole, and Tyson Foods apply Blockchain technologies to their food supply chain. Using Blockchain one CEO claimed their percentage of food with a shelf life of one week rose from 30% to 90%