Mos Food Services, Inc. and Dai Nippon Printing Co. announced on November 30, 2004 that they plan to experiment with a food traceability system for hamburger patties using IC tags. In the verification stage of the experiment, they will manage shipping records of imported beef hamburger patties and provide customers with information on where the beef was produced. The experiment is being carried out at three shops in the Tokyo metropolitan area for three months starting on December 15, 2004.

IC tags are attached to delivery cases at factories where imported beef is processed into hamburger patties. To clarify production records, the IC tags are read, recorded, and stored in the database server at Dai Nippon Printing whenever the delivery cases are carried in or out of warehouses, shipped or delivered. Mos Food Services intends to provide the information to customers at its hamburger shops by using a blackboard, or the like.

Mos Food Services is aiming to further promote their policies on secure and safe food supplies and establish a physical distribution system that provides stricter traceability to deal with emergencies such as accidental distribution of unsuitable food supplies. Through this experiment, Mos intends to test the accuracy of the latest technology in order to attain better precision in their traceability system, as well as promote research and development with a view to using IC tags for every type of foodstuff in future.

Dai Nippon Printing, which supports this system, aims to build its business opportunities for IC tags, in anticipation of growth in IC tag use.



Posted: 2005/03/26 12:30:55 PM
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TAG Eco-product/Business , Food/Water , Non-manufacturing industry , System/Law