[Blindtlk] food labeling
Jude DaShiell
jdashiel at panix.com
Sun May 8 13:23:47 UTC 2016
One thing that might be possible is for the food industry to acquire the
talking prescription technology and roll it out across the industry so the
same reader that gets used to read talking prescriptions also gets used to
read food label information. Potential problems with this will happen
with stores doing mass labeling if this isn't handled correctly. For
example, milk has expiration dates or sell by dates on it. Several
gallons of milk arrive in a shipment and have to have prices and sell by
dates or expiration date information entered. A possible way around this
may be the use of r.f.i.d. technology on containers and the talking
prescription unit reads the r.f.i.d. chip. A store could then locate all
bottles of milk that arrived on a specific date and have spoken
information entered onto all bottles at one time by batch process
recording, everything in that selected group gets the same verbal
information stored on all chips at once. This is a technology problem I
am pretty sure can be solved, at minimum by passing all arrivals through a
data entry machine once parts of food information records that need
updating have had update information supplied then each item going through
data entry has that update done to it.
When do I envision this happening? Never, most businesses haven't updated
to chip and pin technology on credit cards yet even though any data breach
will hold them directly responsible for fixing any monetary losses people
take as a result of that data breach.
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