Improvement and application of vegetable traceability system with integrated real-time rapid detection of information

Abstract: The detection information of farm products increases rapidly, and plays an important role in traceability. The existed detection processing method used the mode of testing sample with detection instruments and manual recording data. This mode leads to the hazard of unassociated batches and distorted information, so the direct and credible effects of detection information in the traceability content are needed. In this paper, the reasons why detection information is not able to be integrated in the existed traceability system were analyzed. Modified system framework with detection information extracting and identification was proposed, which combined the rapid real-time detection instrument for vegetable pesticide residues mainly using enzyme inhibition method. In the detection process, information including detection ID, farm product batch and inhibition rate was recorded. In order to implement the automation reading and extracting of detection information, the access flowchart of detection data included the steps of instrument connection, vegetable detection, data extraction and data storing. The correlation between vegetable plant batch, detection identification number and product traceability code was the other important step for detection information tracing. Because one vegetable plant batch may be divided into many package units, the relationship between the batch code of vegetable plants and product traceability code was the type of 'one to many'. Because of the similar characteristics in one plant batch, the same batch of vegetable was detected once and the relationship between vegetable plant batch code and detection identification code was the type of 'one to one'. The batch correlation between product traceability code and detection identification code was established with the link of vegetable plant batch code. Based on .Net platform and the existed vegetable safety production management system, the vegetable production management and traceability system was updated for three functions. The detection instrument linked the vegetable production management and traceability system with serial port, and linking self-checking was implemented in the instrument link function. Then detection data was obtained through special data format. The detection data could be displayed but not modified in the data management function. The updated system was applied in 153 vegetable production bases in Tianjin city. During March 1st to May 30th in 2014, 28038 vegetable samples were detected and data obtain success rate with the updated system was 100%, and the data acquirement efficiency was improved. Furthermore, the detection results of 20 samples were compared between rapid real-time detection by enterprise self-check and casual inspection by supervision departments. The 20 samples were divided into two groups with No.1-8 samples using the manual recording mode of detection data without the updated the system and No.9-20 obtaining the detection data by automatic reading with the updated the system. The application results showed that the data acquisition success rate was 100% and the difference between the enterprise self-check value and the supervision casual inspection value was low with the absolute value of 4.37 after using the updated the system. The detection value with manual recording of No.3 sample was obviously lower than the one by supervision departments, which has the possible of distort data. Furthermore, the traceability results for using and not using the updated system were compared. Through using the system, the traceability results could indicate the precision detection information through the batches' correlation. The study in this paper presents an important step for satisfying the deeper requirement in traceability system.