RFID Moves Ahead

In the realm of hot topics in food packaging, no topic generates more heat than radiofrequency identification (RFID). Before the end of time, all of us will be affected by RFID in ways we cannot imagine today.

Many consumer packaged goods companies are trying to implement supply chain management with RFID to track all their inventories for time and location; to locate specifically where any single item is at any given time; to reduce out-of-stocks, the absence of a product from a shelf when a con…