Food Traceability Model Using Blockchain Technology: A Review

After pandemic Covid-19, food traceability is becoming more important due to consumer health and safety, ethics, and environmental sustainability especially for animal based-foods. Various technological approaches have been proposed to be a solution to food traceability. One of them is using blockchain technology. This is a literature review on food traceability using blockchain technology in industries. This paper provides a review on industry with emphasis on how the emergence of blockchain technology is used for the food traceability over the years. A thorough study has been done on the existing literature. The primary “search string” was identified in Scopus database and search was focused on the implementation of food traceability with blockchain technology; and after screening the analysis was done. Out of the total 703 studied literature, 25 primary studies published from 2020 to 2024 were selected. Through this paper, the researchers are getting information about what are the key components to develop a food traceability model with blockchain technology and what are the challenges that need to be faced.