GERMAN RESEARCHERS DEVELOP MEAT STANDARD LASER MONITOR
January 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLGERMAN researchers are developing a laser-based scanner, which can check the freshness of meat and meat products, from the slaughterhouse, to processing plants and retailers. The Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Micro-integration is coordinating the Euro 3 million FreshScan project, funded by the German research ministry. The system would involve semi-active radio frequency identification (RFID) tags with temperature sensors recording freshness as meat products move down supply chains. An RFID reader with a laser-based optical detector ...
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