NH Bill HB1650 has been introduced in the House of Representatives to protect local farms and food production. The bill would exempt food grown or manufactured, and then sold within New Hampshire, from the federal food safety regulations. The “Made in New Hampshire” brand would be regulated by the state, and could be leveraged by small, local […]
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WTO Rules Against COOL
WTO rules that country of origin labeling violates free trade agreements the US has with Canada and Mexico.
Latest Update – DoD Labeling
Things may have seemed quiet for a bit on the subject of MIL-STD-129 Department of Defense military labeling standard. Not as quiet as you may think. Reports show both MIL-STD-130 and MIL-STD-129 have been more heavily enforced in the field. Earlier this year, the US Government made the following announcement to the attention of DLA […]
Host-Based Printing – Is This The Future?
Host-based printing is defined by PC Magazine as “A printing system that relies entirely on the host computer to perform all the printer processing. The computer’s CPU rasterizes the data, which creates the bitmaps of the printed pages. It also sends commands directly to the print heads.” Most of the label printers used today are […]
Local Organization Aids Soldiers and Children Worldwide
What began as a family effort to send needed provisions to a brother in Afghanistan has blossomed into an organization that aids soldiers and children throughout the Middle East. Paul and Carole Moore began sending their brother Brian and his fellow soldiers needed but unavailable supplies six years ago. Since then, they and their volunteers […]
Wristband Formatting and Patient Care
There is more to the patient wristband than meets the eye. As a key method of identifying patients, the wristband provides the foundation for accuracy and safety in the health care system. Bar coded wristbands are a proven way to identify patients and access the data associated with their care. Bar codes reduce errors and […]
RFID and Durable Labeling At Your Fingertips
If you go to a centralized printer to pick up your labels and apply the label elsewhere, you not only waste time and take away from productivity, but this leaves a wide margin for error when the wrong label is picked up or applied to the wrong item. It is proven that productivity and accuracy […]
RFID for Asset Tracking
Just about every organization has assets that need to be kept track of. Where they are, when maintenance or calibration is due, the current value – everything needs to be accounted for. In the past, asset information would be kept using pencil and paper, lists that would be filed away until needed. More recently, asset […]
Bar Coding and RFID for the Food Industry
Many mandates, initiatives, and industry efforts are in place to improve traceability and safety in the food supply chain. One important industry effort is the Produce Traceability Initiative (PTI), which strives to achieve supply chain-wide adoption of electronic traceability of every case of produce by 2012. Bar coding and RFID help the food industry achieve […]
DoD Using RFID to Reduce Costs
The DoD is actively moving toward using RFID technology to reduce inventory and increase efficiency. The DoD has been using RFID tags for many years to track movements of supplies, but this next phase of its RFID deployment program aims to bring greater visibility across their entire supply chain. The goal is to use RFID data […]