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RFID IN THE FOOD CHAIN
Improve Food Safety and
Business Efficiencies in the
Meat-Processing Industry
Stéphane Dubé, Quality Assurance Manager
Grégory Pétrieux VP, Business Development
• Companies overview
• Traceability - Statistics
• Traceability - Livestock - World Status
• Traceability in Quebec
• Slaughtering Process
• Project objectives
• The solution
• Why RFID?
• Solution description
• Benefits
• Questions
Content
RFID in the food chain
Companies overview
• Offer solutions to market highly standardized: agri-food, aerospace, etc.
• Canada, USA, Europe
• Partner :
• Codification :
• Beef and steer processing
• The largest beef processor in Eastern Canada
• Production for Canada, Asia, United States, South America
RFID in the food chain
Traceability - Statistics
RFID in the food chain
Traceability - Statistics
RFID in the food chain
Traceability - Statistics
RFID in the food chain
Traceability – World Status
RFID in the food chain
Traceability in Quebec
RFID in the food chain
General benefits of complete eTrace SolutionRFID in the food chain
• Costs reduction on food recalls
• Reaction time : less than 4 hours, generally 20 minutes
• Increase security level in agribusiness industry
• Increase productivity and reduce manual operations
• Real time access to relevant data
• Amount reduction of relevant data
• Increase management efficiency for logistic operations
• Possibility to integrate data with financial systems and ERP
• Better inventory management, warehousing and sales/inventory ratio
• Facilitates audits and traceability processes
RFID in the food chainTraceability – Slaughterhouse solution
RFID in the food chainTraceability – Slaughterhouse solution
• Middleware
• RFID equipments management
• Reading management
• Software
• Collecting data
• Slaughtering management
The solution
• Slaughtering management software
• Middleware : RFID reading and equipments management
• Gen 2, passive, reusable RFID tag
• Motorola's XR400-Series Fixed RFID Readers
• AN200 General Purpose Indoor/Outdoor Antenna readers
• Touch screen industrial computer
• Zebra’s industrial printer
• Cameras (certifications)
RFID in the food chain
RFID in the food chainCase Study – Levinoff-Colbex S.E.C.
Project objectives
• Food safety
• Market positioning
• Prevention of animal diseases outbreaks and potential contamination
• Efficiency of transformation process
• Certification of international markets
• Ultimate objective = traceability
« Trustworthy system to identify and locate all affected products »
RFID in the food chain
Slaughtering Process at Levinoff-Colbex
Why RFID?
• Traceability and operation management automatization
• Harsh environments :
– pressure spray, high temperatures, humidity, extreme shocks, soaking
in caustic soda, etc
• Metal environment
• Multi-rail Management
• Integration with slaughtering management software
RFID in the food chain
Solution description
RFID in the food chain
Veterinarian Station –Holds, releases,
condemnations
Triggers automatically
warnings at blood , legs,
heads and offals stations.
• Ensuring precise product traceability, achieving ROI in less than one year by increasing process and staffing efficiency
• Increasing revenue by as much as 10 to 15 percent by enabling penetration of new international markets
• Providing real-time data to support effective management decisions.
RFID in the food chainBenefits
Traceability helps find Markets –McDonald’s
« McDonald’s Canada has decided that is ground beef from Canadian cull cows will come from Quebec, in part because it has a beef traceability program. »
Traceability isn’t our only selling point but it has been key. It has been a marketing Gold Mine.
RFID in the food chainBenefits
Japanese Article
Japan, Date Verified: cattle less then 21 months of age Must be determined utilizing physiological evaluation (A40) or age verification through documentation
« Japanese importer Zénsho has found the world’s best beef in Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover. (…)The company, which just signed an agreement with the Levinoff-Colbex cattle slaughter and processing plant, turned its back on Australia, Alberta and the Western United States. »
« The province’s traceability system is one of the best in the world. It makes it possible to establish the animal’s origins, its genetic past and its age. »
Zénsho is the owner of 3,900 Japanese restaurants.
RFID in the food chainBenefits
Animal’s Tag
From farm to slaughterhouse
Declaration of the arrival lots
Slaughterhouse
Raising railIdentification with RFID tag on the hook and slauthtering sequence
Slaughterhouse
Blood StationAnimal Identification – Labelling of the blood bag
Slaughterhouse
Low legs StationAnimal identification – Labelling of the legs barrel
Slaughterhouse
RFID readings – Rise railTag certification
Blood station
Legs station
Transfer before main rail
Slaughterhouse
Transfer on the main railRFID reading to associate the rise rail hook
with the position on the main rail
Slaughterhouse
Slaughterhouse
Identification and certification Station for the age of the animalRFID reading of the tag of the animal and association with the position on
the main rail
Certification Station (Angus) Photo of the carcass and RFID reading to
associate the photo with position on main rail
Slaughterhouse
Heads StationAnimal identification – RFID reading of the carousel position and association with the
position on the main rail – Labelling of the head
Slaughterhouse
Offals StationRFID reading of the tray position and
association with the main rail position
Slaughterhouse
Veterinarian Station – before the back rail
RFID reading to identify the carcass.
The veterinarian inspects
and decides wether to let go,
hold, condemn or release
the carcass
Slaughterhouse
Scale StationRFID reading to idendify the carcass
• Weight associated with the carcass
• Printing of the barcode label with
product description
• Additional informations (ex. Grade)
Slaughterhouse
Inventory – Refrigeration – Localization
Slaughterhouse