Supply Chain Integrity System for Ensuring the Safety and Quality of Food and Medicine

Abstract

Supply chain integrity is essential to ensure the safety and quality of food and medicine. It involves maintaining proper standards during production, storage, transportation, and distribution. A strong supply chain helps prevent contamination, spoilage, and the entry of counterfeit products. Technologies such as tracking systems, barcodes, QR codes, and temperature monitoring play an important role in maintaining transparency and control, and regulatory guidelines and regular inspections also support safety at every stage. When supply chains are well managed, consumers receive safe and effective products. The proposed system is a digital Supply Chain Integrity System for Food Safety and Medicine that provides a centralised platform where manufacturers, distributors, transporters, inspectors, retailers, and consumers can interact and access real-time product information. The system integrates product registration, shipment tracking, temperature monitoring, counterfeit detection, inspection reporting, and QR-code verification within one unified application, together with a dashboard that aggregates analytics on products, shipments, inspections, and temperature logs. The prototype is implemented using Python, Streamlit, and SQLite, with Plotly-based dashboard visualisations and a QR-code module for product verification, and was validated through functional test cases covering product registration, validation, QRcode generation, shipment tracking, and related modules, all of which passed. Ensuring integrity builds trust, protects public health, and reduces risks related to unsafe or fake food and medicines in the market.