Digital certification platform for chemical residue compliance in organic olive oil

Overview

Proelefsis Technologies has developed a digital certification platform designed to bring transparency, traceability, and regulatory compliance to organic olive oil production. The platform addresses one of the most pressing challenges in the agricultural sector: the prevalence of adulterated olive oil and the time-consuming, bureaucratic nature of organic certification.

By collecting and integrating data from farmer activities (such as fertilization and pest control), soil analyses, and chemical residue measurements on both inputs and final olive oil products, the platform generates a digital certificate of compliance. This certificate verifies that the production process meets the regulatory requirements for organic products, providing stakeholders across the supply chain with confidence in product authenticity and origin.

Technical specifications

Core capabilities:

• In-field data collection: Captures farmer activities including fertilization, pest control, and other cultivation practices in real time
• Soil analysis integration: Incorporates laboratory soil test results to validate growing conditions
• Chemical residue measurement: Analyzes residues on the final olive oil product to confirm compliance with organic standards
• Regulatory compliance engine: Cross-references collected data against existing organic product regulations to automatically assess compliance status
• Digital certificate generation: Produces a verifiable digital certificate documenting the compliance of each batch

Key benefits:

• Replaces manual, bureaucratic reporting with continuous, real-time validation
• Reduces the risk of agricultural fraud by linking in-field practices directly to product-level chemical testing
• Provides a transparent audit trail for regulators, buyers, and consumers
• Supports the closed-loop philosophy of organic farming by quantifying inputs and outputs

Technology readiness level

The platform builds on existing agricultural ICT solutions, including IoT devices, decision support systems (DSS), and data analytics tools, extending them with a novel connection to chemical residue analysis specifically tailored for organic farming. Proelefsis is currently seeking scientific collaborators to support the analysis and optimization of crop input/output data, and is looking for access to chemical libraries and laboratories to perform residue analyses. The planned validation study is expected to take up to one year. Once completed, the digital certification service will be offered to a broad range of collaborators and stakeholders in the organic olive oil value chain.