Chips in trays allow seafood to be traced

THAILAND - Shrimp will soon be able to tell consumers their place of origin and how well they were fed at the shrimp farm. With radio frequency identification (RFID) technology and food-traceability software, those who love to eat the marine creatures can be assured of their safety.

To enable tons of shrimp from different farms to “speak”, IE Technology – an RFID application developer – has been working to embed RFID microchips into the plastic trays used by farms and middle markets to hold shrimp before distribution to processors.

The development is aimed at supporting the second phase of a food-traceability project, a collaboration between the Science and Agriculture ministries that attempts to make it possible for manufacturers, kitchen staff and even consumers to trace the origin of food back through all processes, ensuring safety.

“Normally, shrimp are shipped in trays from farm to market, after which all are graded by size and mixed in large receptacles. The shrimp travel from one tray to another, then another. Although the farms deploy an automatic system to store shrimp data, it is during this part of the process, when they’re all mixed together, that it becomes impossible to identify which farms the shrimp in each tray come from,” said Naiyavud Wongkomet, managing director of IE Technology.

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Source: The Nation

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