For such small pieces of paper, produce labels attract a lot of attention. Affixed to boxes of fruit or vegetables, they serve a utilitarian purpose by advertising what they are and where they come ...

Sometime around 1962, a kid made his way through the citrus groves of Orange on his bike. When the fruit was in blossom and the air was redolent of the eucalyptus planted as a shield against the Santa ...

YAKIMA, Wash. — Some of the thousands of old fruit-box labels at Saturday’s annual Yakima Valley Fruit Label Swap meet are rare collectibles worth hundreds of dollars, some have interesting stories ...

New York based electrical engineer and designer Scott Amron has come up with an idea that could transform the way industries label fruit and vegetables. You may not pay much attention to that fruit ...

2 January 2005 The next few years will see the development of many new forms of intelligent packaging, capable of far more than the labelling and branding roles packaging has served until now.

Scott Amron really doesn't like peeling those little stickers off fruit from the grocery store. "They're pesky and annoying and they create waste," he tells The Salt. So, he decided to do something ...

You’ve likely peeled countless stickers off fruits and vegetables over the years. But have you ever paused to consider what those numbers actually mean? Many people assume they’re simply codes for ...

You'd think there would be a better way to label and identify fruit than those ubiquitous little stickers, but so far, that age-old solution has been a bit...well, sticky. Scientists at the ...