People aren’t the only ones getting tattoos these days. Pretty soon you’ll see fruits and vegetables with writing on them in the grocery stores. Instead of using stickers, fruit and vegetable labelers will be carving out names and expiration dates from the skin.
A new laser technology has been developed in the past couple of years to etch out “labels” from the skin of both hard-skinned and soft-skinned fruits and vegetables. The system created by Hydroponics is called the Naturall Light Label System and has already been used in farms in South Carolina.
Is it better?
Developers of the laser labeling machines claim that it is. Of course they need to say this to sell their product, but many of the benefits they point out for consumers make sense.
If you compare the laser etching to the current sticker labels, there are a great deal of benefits. For one, you don’t have to deal with peeling off a sticker at all. Two, there will be no potentially harmful and unhealthy adhesive residue left behind. And three, there is no potential harm of accidentally ingesting a sticker. You can just wash your produce and eat it.
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