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  Tao Wang 12:51 on May 5, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: China (14), Food Safety, Food Supply Chain (2), RFID (17)   

  NEC’ RFID Cold Chain System for Chinese Fast-food Industry 

  China’s fast-food industry grows rapidly. China now has more than 150 fast-food chain companies, and 3-4 million fast-food stores nationwide. Founded in 1987, the China Cuisine Association is a national restaurant industry association, which enacted numbers of national food industry standards that commissioned by the government. Recently, NEC (China) Ltd. and China Cuisine Association reached an agreement in Beijing that to build a RFID Cold Chain System, to ensure the safety of fast food in Chinese market.

  Food poisoning and other food safety emergencies often occur in summer due to the high temperature.  The numerous shops, wide distribution, variety of raw materials and large quantities are the characters of fast –food industry. To ensure the food safety, row meat and other staple food needs in a specific temperature processing, storage and transport.

  By NEC’s RFID Cold Chain system, food temperature, humidity and other data changes during transport can be record through the RFID tag sensors. All data can be check through network as reference, in order to take more targeted regulatory measures to prevent food poisoning and other food safety incidents. Furthermore, in case of a food safety incident, the real-time monitoring system can find the origin and distribution of the problem food in a very short time, which helps the food control department to minimize the effect of incident.

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    Don Richardson 14:02 on May 17, 2010 Permalink

    Dear Tao Wong

    Please provide me with the contact details of the NEC China Limited responsible party, and email address, so I can communicate further on this interesting project

    Thank you

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    Tao Wong 00:34 on May 18, 2010 Permalink

    Hi Don, please check your email.

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  Rui Wang 00:24 on April 8, 2010 Permalink
  Tags: China (14), Food Safety, Food Supply Chain (2), RFID (17), Safety (3)   

  RFID for Food Supply Chain 

  Hong Kong always needs the huge support of food supply from mainland China since 1962 due to their limited resource and geographical reasons. The Hong Kong citizen concerns about food product quality from mainland since  several food safety crisis happen in mainland by 2005. As the result, the HK Government Center for Food Safety was established on May 2006 to ensure the safety of food sold in Hong Kong.

  Guangdong Province is located on north of Hong Kong, 80% of mainland food supplied to Hong Kong are from Guangdong. The local government encourages business to use RFID technology in food products fields, to ensure the quality of food supplied to Hong Kong. The successful “RFID pig tag” pilot project as example, a total of 640 pigs has tested with “RFID pig tag” which is different from the traditional livestock ear tag. It will provide more and more accurate information, including the origin of pig; the feed during breeding; the drugs and vaccines had been injected etc. The quarantine testing result indicate that all pigs meets the health and safety requirements of HK SAR.

  Not only in Guangdong, more and more Chinese local governments and related business are focuses on RFID technology to track food products through the supply, so that the food industry can achieve two most important objectives by RFID solution, which is tracking the origin of food and the fully transparency in the food supply chain.