Printing data matrix code on food-grade tracers for grain traceability

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 395-401

  Liang, Kun ^a   Thomasson, John A ^b   Lee, Kyung Min ^c   Shen, Mingxia ^a   Ge, Yufeng ^b   Herrman, Timothy J ^c  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Texas A M University   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEREAL GRAINS; CODE SYMBOLS; DATA MATRICES; DATA MATRIX CODES; IDENTITY INFORMATION; INK-JET; PRINTING PROCESS; TRACEABILITY SYSTEMS; TRACER MATERIALS; TRACER PARTICLE;

CELLULOSE; INK JET PRINTERS; SUGARS; SUPPLY CHAINS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

PRINTING;

CELLULOSE; PRINTERS; PRINTING; ROUGHNESS; SUGARS; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84869000901     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2012.09.012     Document Type: Article

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