Frozen and refrigerated food suppliers face an ongoing challenge of how to eliminate waste and reduce corporate carbon footprints. At the heart of this is the quest to better understand the end-to-end journey of delivered foods so they can optimize their packaging design strategies and more effectively overcome this challenge. Short for variable barcode, Chicago-based Varcode serves the food and beverage, and pharmaceutical and life sciences industries.
The company recently introduced smart label-based technology that provides extensive end-to-end monitoring and reporting of food temperatures and more, meaning companies can mine the previously unavailable data required for true packaging optimization.