Construction of Cross-Border Food Supply Chain Information Sharing Platform Based on Blockchain Under COVID-19

ABSTRACT

The pandemic of the COVID-19 has caused many problems in the cross-border food supply chain during transportation, such as food safety is difficult to guarantee due to the infection of people or environmental epidemics, information asymmetry and difficult to share in the food supply chain, and food related information is tampered with and difficult to trace during transportation. The emergence of blockchain technology has brought new solutions to the above problems. Based on the relevant functions and characteristics of the blockchain, this paper constructs a cross-border food supply chain information sharing platform under the blockchain technology, such as using smart contracts to monitor the epidemic security risk in the transportation process of the supply chain, using hash functions and tamper proof features to deal with food information fraud, and using the distributed and decentralized characteristics of the blockchain to solve the sharing problem of information asymmetry;The time stamp in the blockchain is used to trace the information of each link node of food and the initial node for accountability. In this paper, the construction process of the platform is described in detail from the perspective of model, function and subject, and the specific process of the platform is described in detail from the perspective of information storage, information sharing and information traceability. In this paper, the emerging blockchain technology is applied to all links of the food supply chain, and considering the current epidemic problems, the platform can bring new ideas to solve the problems of cross-border food transportation during the epidemic, and has certain theoretical value. © 2022 Association for Computing Machinery.