The Produce Traceability Initiative (PTI) is seeking volunteers from the fresh produce industry to guide future traceback procedures and help standardize industry-wide traceability practices. PTI wants to establish groups to address issues in four key areas: 1) guide and promote industry-wide adoption of GS1 standards, including developing best-practices for implementing tracking solutions. 2) identify product attributes […]
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Intermec SR61 Scanner Review
Intermec SR61 Hands-on Review When it comes to barcode scanners, I’d be the first to admit that I usually turn to Symbol. Whether the low cost laser scanners for linear barcodes or cordless scanners, I’ve always found the Symbol products to be really nicely thought out – and basically just work. Anyway, just for a […]
Progress on the Food Safety Act
The Senate’s version of the food safety bill introduced last year – S.510 – looks like it finally has enough bipartisan agreement on key issues and might have a chance of passing. Some of the provisions of the bill include: Hazard analysis and preventive controls: Facilities that manufacture, process, pack, or hold food must have in […]
GS1 – The Value Chain
GS1 is the organisation responsible for many of the standards that make supply chains work. If you are here in the US, you probably still think of GS1 as the UCC – the group that set up the UPC barcode standard many years ago. To enable tracking and traceability, there are two important parts – […]
New Marathon Tablet from LXE
A few months ago I was shown some pictures of the beta version of what has become the LXE Marathon. At the time I thought it was rather interesting, but I wasn’t able to see how it would be something our customers would need. Well, the product has now been officially announced and here’s a […]
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