american marketplace

Tracing tomatoes from field to fork _ a new system

Headlines from the Associated Press  Fri, 07/25/2008 - 13:27

WASHINGTON (AP) -- When there's an urgent need to trace fruits and vegetables in a crisis like the salmonella outbreak, a lot of the pieces for a rapid-response system are in place.

But nobody has quite figured out how to put them together to operate seamlessly in the vast American marketplace....