TY  - JOUR
T1  - Improving Food Safety and Traceability Using Optimization of Barcodes
AU - Macak, Tomas AU - Maitah, Mansoor AU - Selby, Richard 
JO  - Research Journal of Applied Sciences
VL  - 9
IS  - 12
SP  - 979
EP  - 988
PY  - 2014
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1815-932x
DO  - rjasci.2014.979.988
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=rjasci.2014.979.988
KW  - Food safety
KW  -design of experiments
KW  -traceability
KW  -barcode
KW  -response surface regression
AB  - There is significant attention on traceability systems in the context of monitoring in the food industry. Although, this has focused increasingly on food safety, agro-food and non-food sectors have also instituted traceability requirements for product identification, differentiation and historical monitoring. This study utilizes the powerful technique of Design of Experiments (DOE) to study the effect of several process parameters on the response or quality characteristics of a process or product. The application of DOE avoids specialist knowledge of statistical analysis by replacing it with a graphical methodology, applied here in the production process of barcodes for food and agricultural products.
ER  -