Refrigerated
Consumption
Brazil has the largest cattle herd in the world and recently a Brazilian company has become the largest refrigerator in the world. Cold Chain traceability through the application of RFID technology allows you to retrieve the history, track the movement and / or use of a particular product throughout the supply chain. The use of EPC (Electronic Product Code) is considered as the most efficient and complete tool to guarantee this traceability and authenticity of products, since through its use it is possible to automate the identification of products and the records of their movements both internally and in partners commercial, and all this information is arranged in the EPC Network.
Several applications were developed with the use of RFID, specifically in the service to this market, motivated by the need to guarantee the traceability of the meat, beginning with the origin, in the pasture, passing through the slaughterhouses, until arriving at the retail. In meatpackers, the meat can be identified automatically along its transport in the various stages of the process of slaughter and treatment.