Designing and implementation of traceability barcode of dates products based on UCC EAN-128 barcode scheme

Abstract EN

Recently, the food safety issue of agricultural products has attracted focus all over the world.

Due to a long supply chain compared with the animal or other kinds of products and the complex processes with huge links.

The Food safety traceability system (FTS) is an effective way to verify of food safety and healthy.

This research was designed and implemented traceability barcode for an agricultural product (Dates) followed the common encoding scheme (UCC/EAN128) with enhancing by added human readable information about the most significant data for the end consumer such as expire and production date.

The proposed system takes DTS barcode as an information carrier which identifies dates products closely related to farming, processing, packing, transportation and distributing.

DTS adopts on Web Service Technology for tracing and extracting all information related to the date product using barcode.

Customers can scan or typing the barcode in the system website.

The Web Service interface provided by DTS will return all traceability information to the end consumer.

Using the proposed code has proved by practice that it can extract all information in high accurate level as well as acceptance from the end consumer because important information is written in a language he/she understands