Digital Product Passport Platform can make the journey of food more transparent

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According to the announcement, one pillar of the development follows the production and processing processes, documents the path of products, quality assurance points and the ingredients used. The second supports consumer information and the producer-customer relationship, and the third helps producers manage farming events and tasks with a digital interface. Some of the functions already exist in other applications, but are not yet available in a single system and in a unified product package – they justified the development. They added: the main challenge in agriculture and the food industry is not the lack of information, but that it is created in isolation from each other and its storage is also separate. Precision machines, sensors, plant management systems, and processing plant software generate large amounts of data, but this can only be used to benefit business and production if it can be connected. With the help of DTP, knowledge from scattered information can reduce losses and help find the best market opportunities, which, according to the developers, will result in more conscious pricing and higher revenue, they wrote. They emphasized that consumers also need product information, since even today they often cannot find out where the goods came from and how they were processed. According to the plans, the code placed on the packaging would not only provide this information, but also the composition and instructions for use. This could be of particular help to people with food allergies, as the system can warn of dangerous ingredients, they said.

According to the application website, the company received 148.77 million forints of support from the Digital Renewal Operative Program Plus (Dimop Plusz)

The project may be completed in the last quarter of 2027, with a total cost exceeding 243.8 million forints. Founded in 2005, Seacon Europe Informatics Development and Informatics Consulting deals with the design and development of applications that support business processes – the company’s website states. According to its report, the Székesfehérvár company closed with a net sales revenue of 262.0 million forints in 2023 and 295.2 million forints in 2024, and its profit increased from 9.25 million forints to 9.38 million forints during that time.

MTI