Zest Labs, an AgTech company modernizing the post-harvest fresh food supply chain, today announced Zest Fresh for Protein is available for the beef, poultry, pork and seafood industries. By applying the benefits of Zest Fresh to perishable proteins, processors, distributors, retailers and restaurants can gain true transparency across supply chains at the pallet or case level, achieving optimal shelf-life, authenticity and food safety controls. Zest Labs is a subsidiary of Ecoark Holdings Inc.
According to the NRDC, eight percent of seafood and four percent of beef and poultry is wasted at the retailer, costing approximately $10 billion a year in pre-consumer waste. Like produce and other perishable foods, beef, poultry, pork and seafood have dynamic shelf-lives that can be negatively impacted by temperature, time and handling. And with protein products often traveling through complex supply chains with multiple processing steps, the opportunity for mishandling or mislabeling only increases, ultimately impacting freshness, quality, authenticity and safety.