AU2019100126A4 - Subsurface inspection of Avocado quality; Quality testing technique with real-time monitoring using Smart Supply Chain - Google Patents
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Abstract
Subsurface inspection of food and agricultural products is challenging for optical-based sensing techniques due to complex interactions between light and heterogeneous or layered samples. Thus, a method for subsurface food inspection is presented based on a newly developed line-scan spatially offset Raman spectroscopy (SORS) technique. A 785nm point laser is used as a Raman excitation source. The line-shape SORS data from the sample can be collected in a wavenumber range of 0-2815 cm-1 using a detection module consisting of an imaging spectrograph and a CCD camera. Using self-modelling mixture analysis (SMA) algorithms are able to demonstrate the potential of the technique for authenticating avocado quality through its skin and evaluating internal food safety and quality attributes. The line-scan SORS measurement technique provides a rapid and non destructive method for subsurface inspection of food safety and quality
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Avocado quality control is dealt with as a total process, commencing with an understanding of the physiological attributes of the fruit itself, including respiration, ethylene production, transpiration and the effects of step-down temperatures and time on quality. Orchard factors that may affect fruit quality are discussed briefly. These include factors such as irrigation, nutrition, mulching, fruit-maturity, diseases, picking and transport to the packhouse. This is followed by an analysis of packhouse factors, including grading, temperature control, waxing, vapour pressure, packaging and marking of cartons. Control of the cold chain during road transport, at the docks and during sea transport is emphasised and the interrelationship between time and temperature and their effect on quality is again emphasised.
With a range of factors affecting the quality, it is important to place a system which is able to track and trace elements that these fruit are put under. With Australia expanding its capability in Avocado production with an eye on the international market, it is of great importance to be able to maintain the status of a high quality producer in order to attract premiums for Australian Avocados and to be able to compete with other competing Avocado producers such as Mexico, Thailand, Kenya and Indonesia.
Avocados are unique fruit that are compeltely covered by a thick skin which show no physical signs of quality of what lies beneath it. It is also impossible to use penetrative approaches to check for quality as it would interfere with sanitary controls that are imposed by import markets. A system that is able to identify and track the quality of avocados from beneath the skin without penetration is therefore important. While some foods can be checked using light based imaging not all are able to yield positive results.
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As such, subsurface inspection of food and agricultural products is challenging for optical-based sensing techniques due to complex interactions between light and heterogeneous or layered samples. Thus, a method for subsurface food inspection was presented based on a newly developed line-scan spatially offset Raman spectroscopy (SORS) technique. A 785 nm point laser used as a Raman excitation source. The line-shape SORS data from the sample can be collected in a wavenumber range of 0-2815 cm-1 using a detection module consisting of an imaging spectrograph and a CCD camera. Using self-modeling mixture analysis (SMA) algorithms we are able to demonstrate the potential of the technique for authenticating avocado quality through its skin and evaluating internal food safety and quality attributes. The line-scan SORS measurement technique provides a rapid and nondestructive method for subsurface inspection of food safety and quality
The new innovative process’ objective is to open, expand and improve and/or maintain access to international trading partner markets for Australian agricultural products by building stronger relationships with trading partners, importing countries and international organisations. Existing export processes for perishable products involves lengthy time-consuming tasks that put pressure on the quality and food safety of the products in transit. This has been a long-term issue to many exporters, especially those exporters of perishable goods such as fruit and vegetables. They run the risk of spoilage because the product is delayed in transit and through the customs quarantine processes of the international trading partners. Many of the current procedures have not changed for a long time and implemented the right technologies.
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As demand from Asia for fresh Australian produce escalates, our farmers are determined to capitalise on this demand. However, dramatic shifts in the market mean we are faced with a unique proposition of how best to address the new challenges. While our farmers certainly can produce considerably more food to meet demand, our existing agricultural export processes are not technologically or logistically equipped to cater for the new generation of internet-savvy, Asian shoppers are demanding instant gratification. The challenge is to create a new means of tapping into this market, and the ability to scale the export capability and processes that will be required to satisfy the growing demands for Australian food from these markets. This supply chain tracking system is solving a significant problem of counterfeiting, by solving this problem we create integrity in the system which then allows clearance done by the government to be quicker.
It is envisaged that this innovative process will open the market within Asia to Australian farmers, providing a vehicle through which to build their export sales into the targeted Asian markets. The critical aim of this initiative is to enable end to end tracking of perishable products such as fruit and veg and provide real-time reporting to key stakeholders in the supply chain of the condition of the food on transit.
The principal objectives that we are achieving through the technology that is implemented in this supply chain are to show receiving and source governments real-time proof that food is not being tampered with and being contaminated on transit. It is also to show our customers the provenance information and to prove that they are paying for Australian premium produce.
This project has the potential to create an improved system for Australian food export and result in the development of protocols within Australia with the International trading partner that will facilitate greater market access to Australian
2019100126 06 Feb 2019 farmers. With real-time tracking and reporting to government, this system will enable the removal of paper-based clearance systems and create a more efficient trade system. Our supply chain system will enhance and speed up what is currently a time -consuming process based on analogue paperwork and human intervention.
Australian-based clearance will offer an advantage to the International destination government, who will benefit from increased trade volumes, leading to net gains in tariffs, plus an increase in the high-quality food supply to the destination country to assist in food security needed by the considerably large and growing population of the nation. Also, the clearance centre will offer international job opportunities for International trading partner nationals.
This process should be patented as we see it providing a significant monetary gain through the advantages that it delivers to exporters.
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1. Non Invasive spectroscopy of avocados
2. Wireless cargo security that protects the integrity of physical movement of goods within a container
3. A fully integrated system that traces each step in the supply chain and creates an irrefutable log for each step in the chain with an alert system that responds in realtime to any breakage in the supply chain with information sent to sending and receiving governments, supplier, buyer and consumer.
4. On-demand reporting of Avocado quality on transit to government entities as well as customers.
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