Blockchain systems and methods for determining sustainability and/or health related provenance of products

A computer implemented method for using blockchain for intelligent classification for product sustainability pedigree identification and estimation by a processor, comprising:

• receiving input data from a manufacturer of a product that specify details of a product pedigree related to sustainability;
• store external data from third party data sources that specify reference, threshold, or warning information that is associated with individual information items in the input data;
• implement a rules engine that contains a collective set of rules that are executed to generate a score representing an accurate estimation of a sustainability of the product based on the received input data,
• apply at least a portion of the input data to the rules engine and in response, generate the score for that product;
• apply a cryptographic hash function to produces a checksum for each of the input data and generate a global unique identifier for each of the input data;
• add each score and each checksum to a blockchain ledger in connection and reuse the checksum and global unique identifier in other blocks when the same data items is used in producing a different score at a different time or a different product;
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• generate a graphical representation of score based on retrieving the score from the blockchain and transmit the representation to a user for displaying on the user's website, or printing or placement on physical product, or marketing collateral.