For all the times you’ve been to a grocery store, have you ever wondered which farms those fruits and vegetables originated? What about the last time you went to a pharmacy? Have you ever stopped to think about the true quality and safety of those drugs, and how and where they were formulated?

Thanks to blockchain technologies, supply chain teams can now track the safety and traceability of products and data across the entire supply chain in ways—and at speeds—once unimaginable.

Jaclyn Jaeger is a freelance contributor to Compliance Week after working for the company for 15 years. She writes on a wide variety of topics, including ethics and compliance, risk management, legal,...