With people's increasing attention to food safety issues, traditional food and beverage production can no longer meet user needs. In order to ensure food safety, many countries (regions) have started to adopt RFID technology and extended RFID devices, effectively promoting food safety supervision by improving traceability and regulatory capabilities.

RFID technology can be applied in multiple aspects of the food industry, ensuring the safety of food, effectively controlling the occurrence of foodborne infectious diseases, and eliminating the constraints of some laws and regulations on food import and export in China, providing technical guarantees for the development of the food industry.

RFID technology enables monitoring of the entire food production process from the source, which can be achieved from the following aspects:

01 Traceability

Each piece of food is labeled with a corresponding RFID electronic tag, which records the source manufacturer, category, grade, and other information of food production. The system tracks the entire production process of the food and backs up the data to the quality inspection center, providing basic traceability data for government departments and enterprises.

02 Fully automatic recognition

After adopting RFID electronic tag technology, the information of each link is fully automatically recognized, and production information of each link can be automatically obtained through fixed or handheld readers.

03 Global monitoring

Real time monitoring of every link in the entire chain from the source of food to the dining table.

04 Security

The use of unique RFID passive electronic tags, with each tag encrypted and unable to be replicated, ensures the security and stability of the RFID tag recognition process, making food safety more reassuring.

Food is directly related to people's physical health. Applying RFID technology to the food industry can effectively ensure the real-time and accuracy of information collection, improve the level of food safety and monitoring management, coordinate various links in the food chain, increase people's understanding of food, and ensure food safety.

Tracking and tracing of food quality

RFID technology can ensure high-quality data exchange in the food supply chain, thoroughly implement "source" food tracking solutions, and provide full transparency in the food supply chain. The RFID system can provide a connection between food and its source in the food chain, ensuring the clarity of the food source to track specific animals or plants and farms, thus achieving quality monitoring and traceability from farmland to dining tables.

Shanghai has established a pork monitoring system based on RFID technology, which places RFID ear tags on pig ears to record information such as feed, medical records, feeding, herd transfer, and quarantine of live pigs. Use RFID electronic tags for point-to-point supervision at major city crossings and slaughterhouses to ensure that pigs enter designated slaughterhouses. In wholesale markets, electronic tags are used to record the origin, trading time, and safety testing results of pork products entering the market for trading.

The Beijing Food Safety Supervision and Coordination Office proposed in 2006 that in key breeding bases, RFID technology should be used in various stages of slaughtering, production, and circulation to achieve animal product breeding, acquisition, slaughter, and segmentation by wearing ear and foot labels on animal products