Mitsubishi-Backed Company Brings Blockchain-Attached Salmon To Consumers

Salmon will be attached to blockchain technology through Mitsubishi's subsidiary Cermaq in Norway and supplied to France. 

The ‘blockchainified’ salmon will be marketed by Labeyrie, a French food company. Consumers can use the special QR code on Labeyrie's label for some more details on the salmon's "from egg to store" itinerary. This salmon-related information will be displayed as a "CV", which indicates the origin of the salmons, how they were farmed, their sizes when shipped to seawater and the relevant addresses of salmon farms.

Information such as welfare and health are also displayed, such as salmon diets and the vaccines used for salmons. The company has now chosen the IBM Food Trust to manage these important data sets. This is a specialized software package that is capable of tracking food distribution routes with private distributed ledgers. 

The platform was built by Hyperledger Fabric, the DLT open source software that was released by Linux Foundation. According to a representative of Cermaq, this project will help French consumers feel more secure about the quality of salmon they are consuming, that salmon has been raised in a responsible and healthy manner, with clear water origin of the Arctic Circle.

Similarly last week, according to Hard Fork, the well-known food leader Nestlé has partnered with French retailer Carrefour to bring baby milk formula to the blockchain, also using the technology of IBM Food Trust.