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Who made that microwave burrito you're eating..."It's all in code," says Chef Wendy. If the product has meat, poultry, or eggs in it, by law it must have an establishment number or name somewhere on the label

I wonder if there is an opportunity for a mobile app where you scan a food barcode/code and see where it was made. You could rate the food and see ratings of other foods made by that company / at that facility.

The data is here: http://www.fsis.usda.gov/regulations_&_policies/Meat_Pou...



A local jam/sauce maker, Beerenberg, has a Provenance Pathway feature on their site:

http://www.beerenberg.com.au/go/our-products/provenance-path...

Enter the barcode and expiry of the product and it will show you the recipe, when/where it was made, photos of the workers involved in its production, description of the process, the source of each ingredient, packing specs, etc.




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