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  • From: su do <speakingbeareturns@yahoo.com>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Hawaii working to link its food chain
  • Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:50:38 -0700 (PDT)

Although this is not revelant, my friend just got back from Hawaii where milk
is $9.00 a gallon.


--- On Wed, 4/16/08, Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net> wrote:

> From: Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net>
> Subject: [Livingontheland] Hawaii working to link its food chain
> To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 9:41 PM
> Hawaii working to link its food chain
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080415/ap_on_re_us/farm_scene_tracking_produce;_ylt=Ahnn7K40x621nscVoFdJ9OzVJRIF
>
> By JAYMES SONG, Associated Press Writer Tue Apr 15, 2:51 AM
> ET
>
> HONOLULU - A technology used to track everything from
> cattle and bottles of Viagra to U.S. military weapons will
> soon be tested on an unlikely candidate for surveillance:
> tomatoes.
>
> The Hawaii Department of Agriculture will rollout a
> three-year pilot project this month to track and trace
> tomatoes and other produce using radio frequency
> identification (RFID) technology. The system uses
> microchips with paper-thin antennae stuck onto produce
> boxes that emit radio waves when scanned.
>
> While the technology is already being used by a few
> supermarkets and farms across the nation, Hawaii would be
> the first state to test RFID from farm to market in hopes
> of improving food safety.
>
> Sandra Lee Kunimoto, chairwoman of the Hawaii Board of
> Agriculture, said the ability to determine where food comes
> from and where it has been distributed will become even more
> important as the food supply continues to be globalized.




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