Analysis of Food Safety and Blockchain Technology

This assignment involves analyzing the role of blockchain technology in ensuring food safety, including its applications in traceability, quality control, and supply chain management. It also discusses the benefits and challenges of implementing blockchain technology in the food industry, as well as the importance of maintaining consumer-centric approaches to food safety. The assignment references several academic papers and research studies on the topic.

Running head: TECHNOLOGIES, LAW AND PRCATICE ROLE’S IN FOOD SAFETY
Topic- Technology, Law and Practice Role’s in Food Safety
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Table of Contents
1. Background and context.........................................................................................................2
2. Aims and objectives...............................................................................................................3
3. Literature review....................................................................................................................4
3.1 Microbiological, chemical and physical and allergens hazards assessed with HACCP. .4
3.2 Future of block chain technology and safety of food management on stakeholders.......5
3.3 Technological innovation for improving food safety.......................................................6
3.4 Review of the balance of competence between UK and EU and the impact of brexit on
regulation of food and safety..................................................................................................7
4. Discussion and Conclusion....................................................................................................8
References..................................................................................................................................9

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1. Background and context
The paper mainly focuses on the role of technology, laws and practices in the safety
of food. The aim of the paper is to create safe food by utilizing various types of modern
technologies. It is identified that the interest in safety of food is mainly intensified from the
last two decades due to number of food crisis that generally affect various countries,
especially the European countries (Watson et al. 2018). Lack of proper safety of food causes
bacteria, viruses and parasites to contaminate with food and due to contamination number of
foodborne illness occur among the people, which generally affect the public health. The
factor that generally assists in food contamination threatens safe consumption of food thus
making it harmful for human health. Due to the negative impact of food contamination on the
health of the public, food emergency occurs within a company that supplies food. As global
demand for food is increasing, it is very much important to have proper laws and policies in
safety of food (Schoenherr, Narasimhan and Bandyopadhyay 2015). In order to maintain food
safety it is also necessary to utilize technology like Block chain that helps in allowing
specific product to be traced in order to reduce food waste.
Due to occurrence of number of foodborne diseases, the customers generally lost their
trust in companies that supplies food, which generally creates negative impact on the
reputation of the organization. In order to gain customer trust in the food industry, it is very
much necessary to redefine the food system (Nayak and Waterson 2017). Safety of food is
quite important as it generally helps the customer from the various risks of food borne
diseases. It also helps in preventing the consumers from various risks of health conditions
including allergies and death. It is identified that utilization of technologies has started to
prove worthy approach in context to food safety (Jespersen et al. 2016). There are number of
emerging technologies that helps in making the food safer as well as appealing. The

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government also implements number of laws and practices that are helpful in maintaining the
safety of food. There are number of laws and practices that generally help in providing proper
guidance on the communication of food safety, hazards and food criminality (Watson et al.
2018). The laws and practices also helps in facilitating consistent approach and interpretation
for delivering official controls specially in context to risk scoring by updating advice and by
making proper clarification about the various risk descriptions that are generally utilized in
the safety food establishment intervention.
2. Aims and objectives
The main aim of the research is to focus on the technologies as well as laws and
practices that are helpful in maintaining the safety of food. The paper mainly reviews number
of articles in order to create safe food by utilizing the modern technologies.
The objectives are as follows:
 To understand the law associated with food and safety in order to compare the level of
awareness among the various practices that are used in UK
 To research about the role of gathering technologies, laws and practices for maintain
consumer centric approach
 To analyze whether the block chain technology is the future of food safety
The paper mainly reviews the technologies and laws and practices that are helpful in
maintaining the safety of the food in order to create safe food by utilizing modern
technologies. It is identified that safety of food must be understood by the people with the
help of various activities and behaviours that generally helps in minimizing risks which, are
associated with foodborne illness.

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3. Literature review
3.1 Microbiological, chemical and physical and allergens hazards assessed with
HACCP
According to Allata, Valero and Benhadja (2017) a Hazard Analysis and critical
Control Points mainly includes number of components that is generally based on seven
different principles. The initial step must be taken is to control the hazard analysis. This is
considered as one of the critical step as it generally plays an important role. Hazards are
generally identified as one of the part of hazard analysis that are generally evaluated based on
likelihood of occurrence as well as on the severity at which it causes injury and illness. It is
stated by Robertson (2017) that all hazards are generally assessed and categorized into
number of three groups including biological, chemical and physical hazards. Biological
hazards include number of microorganism including bacteria, yeasts, viruses and parasites.
On the other hand, chemical hazards generally vary in aspect of production. It is identified
some potential hazards prior to processor receiving product generally include improper use of
antimicrobial residues as well as pesticides.
It is necessary for the HACCP team to evaluate the hazard analysis by determining
the likelihood of chemicals that causes injury or illness among people. In addition to this,
standard operating procedures generally helps in addressing the acceptable use of various
types of products, which could negative impact if not monitored or handled properly. It is
opined by Allata, Valero and Benhadja (2017) that physical hazards include objects that are
sharp including metal, plastics and stones. It is identified that physical hazards generally lead
to injuries. Some of the foreign materials related with food products are not considered as a
physical hazard. In order to resolve the hazards it is necessary to adopt HACCP principles

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that assists in providing a systematic way of determining the food safety hazards by ensuring
that will be managed responsibly.
3.2 Future of block chain technology and safety of food management on stakeholders
Block chain generally helps in making supply chain much more transparent in all the
new levels. It generally helps in empowering the supply chain to be much more responsive in
context to food safety disasters. Massive organizations like Unilever and Nestle are utilizing
the blockchain technology. According to Engelhardt (2017), that technology of blockchain
helps in allowing specific products to be traced at a given time, which would further helps in
minimizing the reduction of foo waste. Furthermore, contaminated products are generally
traced quickly and easily so that safe food would remain on the shelves.
Blockchain technology helps in creating a positive impact on the stakeholders, as
with help of this technology they can be able to provide food safety as well as sustainability
in supply chain. The technology of blockchain generally has the capability of transforming
the way in which organizations generally collaborate by enhancing the level of trust (Ge et
al. 2017). Utilization of this technology in food supply chain helps in overcoming fraud. It is
identified that by providing proper understanding and by making the supply chain accessible
for the people it generally assists in providing 100% assurance on the authentication of
various products that are delivered by the various organizations.
The leaders generally adopt the technology of blockchain as it generally helps in
providing an opportunity that is mainly added with digitization strategy in order to affect the
entire industry of food (Shrier, Wu and Pentland 2016). It is found that information about a
specific product can be provided by organization with the utilization of blockchain
technology in a very much less time if any type of outbreak or diseases occurs With the help

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of this technology, productivity, competitiveness transparency and sustainability of food
sector is generally enhanced..
3.3 Technological innovation for improving food safety
Recently, numbers of technological innovation have occurred that generally helps in
improving the safety of food. The technological innovations include:
Irradiation: Irradiation is considered as one of the non-thermal innovation for the
safety of food. Food irradiation generally utilizes X-rays, electron beams or gamma rays in
order to kill bacteria without creating damage. High-energy beams does not affect production
however it generally damages the DNA of living organism (Vigani et al. 2015). It generally
helps in killing bacteria thus rendering them to produce. Studies suggest that irradiation
generally helps in controlling the effective growth of bacteria. Irradiation generally has
number advantages in context to food safety.
Ozone: It is stated by Veselovsky et al (2015) that ozone is mainly utilized as one of the
disinfecting agent that is used for treating municipal water supplies. It is found that ozone is
mainly utilized in either its liquid state or gaseous stare. Gaseous state of ozone is mainly
used as a proper cleansing agent for various types of water sensitive products. In addition to
this, it is identified that ozonated water generally creates positive impact in eliminating the
pathogens from the surface of poultry, meat and vegetables. However, disinfection of ozone
system is quite costly.
New other innovations: Another less recognized technological innovation generally
aims to improve the safety of food. It identified that the technology was mainly developed by
bioMérieux, which is an organization that mainly specializes in vitro diagnostic. The
organization generally developed a food testing methodology that is VIDAS UP Salmonella
(SPT) (Aung and Chang 2014). It is found that SPT mainly utilizes recombinant

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bacteriophage proteins for detecting lower levels of Salmonella bacteria within the food
samples.
3.4 Review of the balance of competence between UK and EU and the impact of brexit
on regulation of food and safety
It is stated by Crafts (2016) that the relationship between the European Union and UK
has been a recurrent theme within of politics of British in recent years. It is identified that the
impact of both financial and economic crisis helps in enhancing the support for anti-European
parties that generally helps in creating deepen feeling of alienation from the various decision-
making institutions. The review that was undertaken is an audit of the process that were
undertaken by EU and the steps through which it affects UK. The review generally reflects
ion the competence that are generally used for the national interest. The issues as well as
challenges that generally affect EU member states and can have a bearing on the future of
EU.
It is opined by Watson et al. (2018) that leatherhead food research helps in evaluating
the most important implications of Brexit for the food and drink industry of UK. Brexit is
discussed from the various regulatory and food safety perspectives by looking at number of
possible changes in various food legislation. It is found that the practicalities of export as well
as import in the world of post Brexit helps in taking a view how it generally helps in creating
impact on the industry. The main way of implementing brexit is to repeal the ECA, which
will effectively render it along with the number of legislation that was mainly enacted
through it. The government mainly advised to avoid the various types of legislative gaps for
bringing a great repeal bill forward.

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3.5 Frid and Sensor Network Automation in Food Industry
According to Piramuthu and Zhou (2016), RFID is mainly defined as one of the
technology within the food industry that generally helps in facilitating real time visibility for
moving through the end consumers as well as supply chain. RFID and sensor network
automation within the food industry generally helps in providing proper detail on the
utilization of the farm to fork in order to allow the reader for appreciating the possible
applications of RFID and sensor network automation within the supply chain. This generally
includes minimization of waste, identification of counterfeits, precision agriculture and more.
4. Discussion and Conclusion
It is identified that number of questionnaires as well as surveys are conducted in
order to collect data for creating awareness about the safety of food. It is analysed that
technology like blockchain is quite helpful in tracing the food at a given time, which is quite
helpful in providing specific information about the products if any type of diseases or
outbreak occurs. Blockchain technology is also helpful in creating a positive impact on the
stakeholders of the organization, as they can be able to maintain food safety. Tracing the
footstep of food is considered as one of the good practice for avoiding cross contamination
and for marinating the quality of food. In addition to this, it is identified that number of laws
and practices are present that not only helps in maintaining consumer centric approach in
context to food safety.

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