Applied Computing in Medicine and Health

Chapter 12

Development and Applications of Mobile Farming Information System for Food Traceability in Health Management

Yu-Chuan Liu¹,  and Hong-Mei Gao^2     1Assistant Professor, Department of Information Management, Tainan University of Technology, Tainan, Taiwan     ²Professor, Department of Logistic Management and Engineering, Tianjin Agricultural University, Tianjin, ChinaE-mail: [e-mail], [e-mail]

Abstract

As the food supply chain globalization became inevitable, concerns for food safety, agro-processing, and the environmental and ecological impact of food production have been exacerbated. Transparency in the way agriculture was grown and handled throughout the supply chain process resulted in an important issue of “traceability” ...