Connect producers, ingredient or product batches, processors, distributors, laboratories and downstream product records — preserving the evidence linking physical products to testing, transformations and movements through a supply chain.
A single product on a shelf can carry claims that depend on records held by several organisations that have never shared a system: a producer’s batch or harvest record, a processor’s transformation and packaging record, a distributor’s movement record, and one or more laboratories’ test results. Each organisation keeps good records of its own step. What is harder is proving the connection between them — that the ingredient tested by the laboratory is genuinely the one that ended up in the batch on the shelf, and not a plausible but unverified assumption.
That gap rarely matters until it is challenged: a quality claim is questioned, a customer asks for evidence, a regulator requests a trace, or a recall requires working out exactly which downstream products a contaminated batch reached.
The BioChain does not replace a producer’s farm records, a processor’s manufacturing execution system, or a distributor’s logistics platform. It connects the provenance relationships between the records those systems already hold, so a batch, a test result and a finished product can be traced back to each other without any one participant having to trust another’s system, or migrate onto it.
If a customer, auditor or regulator asked for the full history behind one product today, how many organisations would you need to call?
For most supply chains, the honest answer involves several phone calls, a search through email attachments, and some genuine uncertainty about whether the records that come back actually match. A shared provenance layer turns that into a traceable chain instead of a reconstruction exercise.
The five steps are the same everywhere. Here is what each one connects in this context.
Ideally the organisations generating key evidence — producers, processors, testing laboratories — are connected, but the value builds incrementally as more of the chain is covered. It does not require a single big-bang rollout across every supplier at once.
No. It connects the provenance between the records those systems already hold. Your traceability system remains the system of record for its own data.
The chain has a gap at that point, which is itself useful information — it shows exactly where your traceability currently depends on trust rather than evidence.
Often, yes, where the scheme’s requirements depend on tracing a product through its supply chain. We would need to look at the specific scheme’s evidence requirements.