субота, 14. јануар 2012.

OJ crises can be avoided with barcodes

Large shipments of orange juice and other produce could easily be tracked and traced back to their source, pinpointing where outbreaks begin.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Several times each year, the nation faces a widespread, food borne illness crisis. But there's an easy, cheap technological solution that could stop scares and outbreaks in their tracks.

A relatively simple system of QR codes -- those funny-looking, two-dimensional barcodes you see everywhere today -- could instantaneously link a product sold on store shelves back to the farm where it was grown or raised with a snap of a smartphone camera. It would no longer take days or weeks to determine what food is safe and what isn't.

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