With the improvement of living standards, people are increasingly fond of pollution-free, pure natural, and green food, which has made food safety a global focus of attention. At the same time, food safety management is the basic guarantee for China's reform and development, socio-economic development, and the construction of a harmonious society to ensure the safety of food used by the people. Therefore, the government has taken different measures and introduced corresponding laws, regulations, and policies to ensure food safety. The 11th Five Year Plan for National Food and Drug Safety issued by the General Office of the State Council (State Council Office [2007] No. 24) specifically proposes to strengthen food safety monitoring and traceability in the field of food safety.
At present, most of the vegetable supply chain systems in China are manually operated, relying solely on experience to execute the entire process of picking, weighing, warehousing, outbound, transportation, store sales, or direct sales by manufacturers. There is no automation or systematic management, resulting in poor and incorrect information feedback, difficulty in controlling each link, inability to view information flow in real time, and inability to detect and handle problems in a timely manner, leading to errors in many links. At the same time, the management of finance, vehicles, and other aspects also wastes a lot of manpower, material resources, and financial resources.
The implementation of the above aspects has brought about the consequences of increased costs and decreased profit margins for our vegetable factories. At the same time, due to human factors in various links, it has seriously constrained the development of vegetable wholesale enterprises, making it difficult to grow and strengthen, and become a large-scale enterprise with systematic, automated, and intelligent cross regional scale.
By establishing a food (vegetable, etc.) circulation traceability system, the above-mentioned problems in the wholesale market of food (vegetable, etc.) will be well solved. This system uses industry customized software and hardware solutions to achieve a food (vegetable, etc.) quality and safety traceability information management mode with RFID ultra-high frequency technology and two-dimensional barcode technology as the core. It also converts, fuses, and mines numerous heterogeneous information, realizing information application services with RFID as the key index. At the same time, the provided food (vegetable, etc.) demonstration applications comprehensively involve information collection, recording, and exchange in many links of the food (vegetable, etc.) supply chain, including planting (breeding), distribution, logistics, market sales, etc., and a low-cost and efficient hardware solution. A comprehensive information sharing and exchange software technology support platform seamlessly integrates, with rigorous data authentication and access control design mechanisms, It provides a solid foundation for the quality and safety application services of different objects related to food (vegetables, etc.). The construction of the platform will be conducive to guiding the large-scale scientific production of vegetable factories, optimizing traditional working methods, managing the information management process of circulation enterprises, simplifying and accelerating information exchange between enterprises and government regulatory departments, and fully meeting the right of consumers to know about food information.
Compared with commonly used barcode technologies, RFID barcode quality traceability systems have various advantages, such as long recognition distance, no need for labels to be visually visible during recognition, ability to be used in harsh environments, resistance to contamination, repeated reuse, possible content updates, the ability to batch read multiple labels, and a large amount of information. These advantages make RFID have broad application prospects in the field of agricultural product management.
Implementation effect:
Realize that production enterprises can calculate the yield of each category of vegetables, the workload of picking personnel can be calculated, and the data can be recorded and queried, with a high degree of transparency in information.
Realize full traceability and visualization of vegetables for production enterprises, improve safety, and ensure the safety of vegetable food.
Realize full traceability and query of vegetables for consumers, thereby making them more confident in vegetable food safety and enhancing the image of production enterprises.
Realize production enterprises to reduce manual error rates, reduce time costs, and increase work efficiency compared to before.
By applying RFID technology, we can improve the management level of enterprise production sites and provide customers with satisfactory products and services. By combining RFID technology with computer information management, rapid and automatic intelligent identification of electronic labels on packaging boxes is achieved throughout the entire production and packaging process. Combined with computer system database information, it replaces manual data recording, eliminates errors, improves efficiency, and realizes the informatization, automation, networking, and intelligence of product production, packaging, warehousing, logistics, and store sales process management. After system integration, all kinds of reports are automatically completed by the computer, making the work simple, convenient, accurate, and fast. Through real-time data collection, management, retrieval, archiving, and statistics, production and quality information can be dynamically reflected and recorded, enabling production managers to timely, accurately, and comprehensively understand the overall traceability situation. This enables consumers to trace the entire product process, and enterprises to control product records more accurately. This lays a solid foundation for the production, packaging, storage, transportation, health, and safety of vegetables, while allowing people to consume green food with peace of mind.
