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2) The areas to which mobile and wireless ICT was applied
3) The goals and functions for adopting mobile wireless ICT
4) Impacts and challenges generated by using mobile and
wireless ICT
4. FINDINGS
The 11th five-year plan released by China General Administration
of Quality Supervision, Inspection, and Quarantine demonstrated
Specific
processes
Production
safety
5. DISCUSSIONS
5.1 Micro-level Impacts
1) It helps to refine quality control working procedures and
improve decision making quality and accuracy
2) It empowers FDA officials to take a more proactive role
3) It also helps to efficiently prevent corruptions associated
with loose inspection and quality control.
However, low technical operation capability and capability,
especially the latter one, are two major obstacles for application.
5.2 Intermediary Level Impacts
1) Accurate data accumulated enable private vendors and FDA
to optimize supply chain and decision making.
2) A flatter hierarchy in government is slowly emerging.
3) Communication barriers between agents start breaking.
4) Collaboration between private food suppliers and the FDA
in China is greatly enhanced.
5.3 Macro-level Impacts
1) FDA control began to return with actual data pointing to the
origin of problems and entities for accountability
2) Local FDAs are collaborating to launch a national project
for authentic data to punish vendors’ illegal actions.
3) Public employees' lack of capacity and willingness for
information processing and sharing
4) Food vendors’ low motivation to install inspection system
due to high cost and resistance to share with FDA key data.
that China’s FDA invested heavily in national food quality control
infrastructure. The pilot project called “Golden in 2006 Quality”,
consists of one network, including all equipments and network
platforms; one database, “Quality Supervision Administration
Database”; three systems, Quality Supervision, Inspection and
Management System, Administrative Licensing and Management
System, Quality Inspection Information Service System. We
present our findings on the use of mobile ICT for food and drug
safety management in Table 1.
5) Lack of legal and regulatory environment for food quality
Table 1: Major mobile and wireless technologies used for food quality control
Mobile ICT involved Purpose Actual Impact
RFID; Wireless sensor
system; coding techniques;
Supply chain RFID; ZIGbee; GIS; GPS;
RS etc
Monitoring
and Tracing
Emergency
management
Collect and manage data on production
environment and individual identifier
Optimize business flows in supply chain;
improve transportation efficiency;
supervise and inspect product quality
GPRS; RFID; GPS; GIS; Supervise products in the market;
Consumer inquiry of product data
ArcGIS server Food and Drug emergency data
collection, analysis and application
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Visual presentation of production environment
on GIS; RFID system for product information
collection, identification and retrieval
“3S” system for vehicle tracking and
dispatching; In-transit merchandise inspection
and management with RFID
Data inquiry on the entire production process in
the central database with PDA
Backtrack product information in the case of
emergencies
control to punish private vendors' wrongdoings
6. CONCLUSION
In this paper, we reviewed academic papers and reports published
to understand roles and impacts of mobile and wireless
technology in food quality control in China. More progress on
three levels is still required before mobile and wireless ICT can
unleash its full potential in quality control system.
7. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We want to thank multiple funding agencies for their generous
support on the research: China National Social Science
Foundation (Project ID: KRB3056068), Shanghai Pujiang
Program (Project ID: KBH3056609), New Faculty Member Startup
Programs, China Ministry of Education (Project ID:
JJH3056008), Fudan 985 Program (Project ID: 2011SHKXZD013)
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