date:Dec 28, 2020
The New South Wales Department of Primary Industries is placing QR codes on melons to trace the fruit from the farm, all the way to the consumers' fridges.
According to Research horticulturist S.P. Singh, the idea to use melons, and not some other fruit, was partly due to their size and to problems that arose in tracing listeria contamination two years ago. An outbreak in 2018 killed seven people and led to one woman having a miscarriage; 16 more people in Australia were infected with listeria