[Blindtlk] food labeling

[Jude DaShiell]

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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