China's tech industry takes on food safety
Apps that provide product details, farmers selling directly to online consumers and smart chopsticks to check contamination are some of the tools
Hong Kong
THE smartphone tells the story of a kiwi fruit in China.
With a quick scan of a code, shoppers can look up the fruit's complete thousand-mile journey from a vine in a lush valley along the upper Yangtze River to a bin in a Beijing supermarket. The smartphone feature, which also details soil and water tests from the farm, is intended to ensure that the kiwi has not been contaminated anywhere along the way.
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