Authenticate Information Systems (AIS), a food supply data firm based in Harrogate, has tracked its 75,000th product and has recorded that it's working with more than 4,000 food businesses.

These different companies span 69 countries and (AIS) is working with an increasing amount of farmers, raw materials processors, food manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers to gather and share information to make the food supply chain and manufacturing industry more transparent, reports the Yorkshire Post.

To do this, the company uses a cloud-based platform, which traces a product's journey from its place of origin through to the consumer.

It has been growing significantly as the UK's biggest supermarkets have been beginning to use the service.

Paul Marples, chief executive officer of AIS, said that the company's service has been so popular because it allows businesses in the food industry to "easily track every ingredient via a dynamic digital system, which maps risk areas".