Nestle, a global food giant, has partnered with a French supermarket chain, Carrefour, to put baby milk formula on the blockchain. IBM’s food-tracking blockchain software known as IBM Food Trust will be used for this initiative. This IBM Food Trust is a Linux-based Hyperledger software.

These two companies are teaming up to provide customers with transparent information for the GUIGOZ Bio 2 and 3 infant milk ranges. Consumers will be able to access this information by scanning a QR-code that will be printed on the product.

Carrefour has earlier revealed its intention to put a minimum of 20% of its in-house products on the blockchain by 2020. Carrefour claims it has DLT-related pilots who are operating in six countries.

JD.com, China’s popular online retailer also announced around the same time that sales of its free-range chickens had doubled in two years. They attributed part of this success to their blockchain-enabled QR-codes.

Other companies aside aforementioned, have also been applying the blockchain technology in their production. Some of them are Auchan, a carrot selling firm and Dutch supermarket, Albert Heijn, who deals in orange juice.