Tag program for striped bass off to good start.
An effort to place satellite information tags into striped bass has been deemed a success. Dr. John Graves of the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences placed six tags into fish last weekend. He has four more tags to deploy. Part of the sought data deals with mortality in a catch-and-release

Publication: The Virginian Pilot

Name tags: A great invention that just got better! - Business First of Louisville:
I am one of those irritating people who has trouble remembering names and faces. I'm so absent-minded I'll reintroduce myself to members of my nuclear family. That's why I've always been an advocate of name tags. For people like me, name tags are a great invention: I simply divert a person's

Publication: Business First (Louisville)

Good news on stopping bad fish: color-coded abuse warning tags. (Visual Indicator Tag Systems AB's Freeze Temperature Checker)
Reusability of tags responding to temperature changes allows continuous monitoring throughout products' storage and distribution cycle. Bad fish are bad for business, and seafood processors and distributors have always faced the challenge of ensuring that their products remain safe and wholesome

Publication: Quick Frozen Foods International

Self-adhesive indicator tags: monitor temperature-sensitive goods.(New Products)
WarmMark TimeTemp Tags monitor warming temperatures of refrigerated products during shipping and storage. Tags are available in a number of temperatures from -18C to 37C. When warmed above the tag's rated temperature, the three indicating windows will turn progressively red. Telatemp Corporation

Publication: Pharmaceutical Processing

Tags will tune retailer in to stock count; Radio frequency identification allows for better tracking
Radio frequency identification tags - the items some people expect to supplant the retail bar code - could be a few years away from being a local reality. Wal-Mart has equipped 12 pilot stores in Texas with the technology, which uses silicon chips and an antenna to transmit data on products in

Publication: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)

TECHNOLOGY; Wal-Mart Hits More Snags in Its Push to Use Radio Tags to Track Goods - New York Times
When Wal-Mart Stores surprised its suppliers last summer by announcing an aggressive timetable for them to put radio frequency tags on their shipments, it put manufacturers of the most tightly controlled prescription drugs on the fastest track of all. They were supposed to send bulk shipments of

Publication: The New York Times