Company's Zest Fresh Platform Embeds Food Freshness Metrics into the Blockchain for True Transparency Across the Supply Chain to Ensure the Safest Produce to Retailers and Restaurants
Zest Labs, a subsidiary of Ecoark Holdings, Inc. ("Ecoark") EARK, today announced integrated blockchain support at no additional cost or labor for growers and shippers using the Zest Fresh platform. The addition of blockchain support creates an added layer of security and trust throughout the fresh food supply chain by creating true transparency about all key food freshness and safety factors to all participants within the network.
"You can't put a price on food safety and security," said Peter Mehring, CEO of Zest Labs. "Consumers have become much more interested and informed about the safety and handling of their food. As a result, premier retailers and restaurants are now demanding blockchain technology be used to ensure the accuracy of this important information. To help make it easy for our growers and shippers to meet this new demand, we've seamlessly implemented this technology at no cost to them."
Zest Fresh is the only freshness management solution that autonomously tracks and reports in real time the freshness of products from harvest to the retail store or restaurant kitchen. With the industry's first dynamic freshness metric – the ZIPR code – Zest Fresh provides continuous real-time visibility of the remaining freshness capacity of produce and then directs intelligent routing to optimize delivery for required shelf-life.
"Zest Fresh quickly delivers access to blockchain technology for its customers by leveraging secure and authenticated data collection from its wireless IoT sensors, through its intelligent access points and into the secure Zest Cloud," said Scott Durgin, CTO at Zest Labs. "Further, by combining our predictive analytics, we can extend the value of blockchain through smart contracts that can automatically recognize when fresh products meet contracted specifications throughout the supply chain."
This unique combination of secure traceability and the ZIPR code freshness metric provides true transparency and intelligent routing that significantly improves freshness consistency for consumers and reduces waste for retailers. In fact, Zest Fresh is proven to reduce waste from spoilage by more than 50 percent for grocery retailers.
About Zest Labs
Zest
Labs, a subsidiary of Ecoark Holdings, Inc., provides a growing
suite of freshness management solutions that substantially improve
quality consistency and drive sustainability for a wide range of
clients. Zest Labs provides solutions to modernize the existing food
distribution and delivery system by significantly increasing efficiency
through continuous condition monitoring and real-time prescriptive
analytics.
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About Ecoark Holdings Inc.
Founded in 2011, Ecoark is
an AgTech company modernizing the post-harvest fresh food supply chain
for a wide range of organizations including growers, distributors and
retailers. The company's Zest Fresh™ solution, a breakthrough approach
to quality management of post-harvest fresh food, is specifically
designed to help substantially reduce the $161
billion amount of food loss the U.S. experiences each year.
Through item-level monitoring and real-time predictive analytics, Zest
Fresh enables customers to improve the freshness and quality of produce,
realize substantial cost savings and reduce food waste. To learn more
about Zest Fresh click here.
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