Dairy traceability: : pathways to a sustainable and resilient supply chain
Malik, Mohit LU
; Dalal, Madhu
; Mor, Ashish
; Toor, Kapil
; Yadav, Dhiraj Kumar
and Gahlawat, Vijay Kumar
(2025)
p.137-148
- Abstract
The complex structure of dairy operations requires the adoption of effective traceability mechanisms to ensure transparency, quality, and safety in a sustainable manner. This chapter explores the fundamental aspects of traceability, highlighting its ability to improve transparency, encourage consumer confidence, and ensure regulatory adherence in the dairy context. Integrating technological interventions, such as artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT), etc., and traceability systems offers real-time monitoring, predictive analytics, and safe data management. These improvements allow stakeholders to monitor the progression of dairy operations from farm to fork, ensuring regulatory compliance related to... (More)
The complex structure of dairy operations requires the adoption of effective traceability mechanisms to ensure transparency, quality, and safety in a sustainable manner. This chapter explores the fundamental aspects of traceability, highlighting its ability to improve transparency, encourage consumer confidence, and ensure regulatory adherence in the dairy context. Integrating technological interventions, such as artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT), etc., and traceability systems offers real-time monitoring, predictive analytics, and safe data management. These improvements allow stakeholders to monitor the progression of dairy operations from farm to fork, ensuring regulatory compliance related to adulteration, contamination, and quality standards. Critical factors, such as increased customer demand for transparency, rigorous regulatory mandates, and sustainability goals, highlight the necessity for adopting traceability. Given the potential advantages, challenges include substantial implementation expenses, opposition to change, and data privacy issues that endure. The chapter underscores solutions for addressing such challenges, the necessity for collaboration among politicians, industry executives, and technology suppliers. This chapter examines future trends, including the incorporation of circular economy models and Industry 5.0 concepts, to enhance the sustainability impact of traceability systems. This chapter emphasizes traceability as a vital instrument for ensuring a transparent, resilient, and sustainable dairy future.
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- author
- Malik, Mohit
LU
; Dalal, Madhu
; Mor, Ashish
; Toor, Kapil
; Yadav, Dhiraj Kumar
and Gahlawat, Vijay Kumar
- publishing date
- 2025-10-01
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Artificial intelligence, Blockchain, Dairy industry, Sustainability, Traceability
- host publication
- Trends in animal-based foods
- editor
- Nimmanapalli, Ramadevi and Kumar Singh, Manish
- edition
- 1
- pages
- 12 pages
- publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
- external identifiers
-
- scopus:105022329405
- ISBN
- 978-3-032-00574-8
- 978-3-032-00577-9
- 978-3-032-00575-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-032-00575-5_7
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- id
- ab786dc6-70d1-4ccf-878d-77b58a60379b
- date added to LUP
- 2026-02-09 10:57:40
- date last changed
- 2026-10-08 15:44:22
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