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Around 60 years into the Information Age, it’s perhaps no wonder that the near-term forecast for technological advances—for the food industry and beyond—revolves around just that: making effective use of data like never before. The speed at which data is now collected is driving rapid development of high-tech intelligent solutions designed to help companies sort, manage, and analyze troves of information that can be used to optimize processes and address challenges varying from…