Soon to be gone are the days when you could pick up a couple of ordinary fresh green peppers and impress your guests with stories of “I only use organic produce”. Lasered Fruit stickers are the latest technology from a Georgia manufacturer, designed to alleviate the problem of having to peel off those pesky little stickers that currently identify most of our fresh produce and are just as easy for supermarket checkouts to use as a PLU code. The $38,000 laser machine etches indelible but edible labels onto the skin of the fruit and veg and has been available for two years. So far the US FDA are still to approve commercial use of the machine. If approved apart from a lot of unemployed label makers, will we really want to be serving up PLU codes to our dinner guests? Somehow I don’t think that lasered labels are going to enhance the visual presentation of a lovingly compiled fresh fruit platter.......And what about the after taste?
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