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To ensure the quality and freshness of produce, growers and
distributors have begun implementing RFID readers and tags to their shipments.
Growers cooperative Clifford Produce in Ontario has already begun using this
practice and the Hawaii Department of Agriculture in Honolulu looks to do the
same.
The readers are from Intelleflex and enable "wireless, on-demand,
product-level monitoring" that can be read through traditionally-challenging environments
for RF devices, including metals, liquids, and inside packages and containers. They
are based on the ISO/IEC 48000-6 and EPCglobal C1G2 RFID multi-protocol design
standards for temperature monitoring and asset tracking, among other
applications.
By using RFID readers at the package-level, growers,
shippers, distributors, and retailers can easily identify which products need expedited
delivery to avoid waste. These tags also allow recipients to monitor the
temperature of incoming shipments.
Do you think this type of quality control measure will
catch-on?
Source: Supermarket News
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