Monitoring Food Packaging

Printed electronics, RFID are helping keep our food safer.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Contributing Editor, Coatings World and Ink World

With stories about illnesses caused by food spoilage appearing in the media on a frequent basis, it would seem that monitoring food shipments and packaging would be of the utmost importance. Due to new developments that are being made in the field of RFID, sensors and printed electronics, the food we are buying in the supermarket is more rigorously monitored today than ever before. Smart labels and tags are allowing retailers to keep a close watch on perishable food items such as meat, dai...

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