Smart Choices chief Mike Hughes says the decision was triggered by the FDA's recently announced push for a standardized system for front-of-the-package food labeling.

The project believes active and intelligent labels -- giving information on, among other things, whether the product in the package is spoiled, its freshness, temperature in the package, ...

Although we focused on the food sector, these methods can be carried over to analyse other areas where new technology is being introduced, such as adding smart bins (that sense when rubbish ...