For such small pieces of paper, produce labels attract a lot of attention. Affixed to boxes of fruit or vegetables, they serve a utilitarian purpose by advertising what they are and where they come ...

Sometime around 1962, a kid made his way through the citrus groves of Orange on his bike. When the fruit was in blossom and the air was redolent of the eucalyptus planted as a shield against the Santa ...

The brightly colored labels on apple boxes were strictly utilitarian. For more than a half-century, labels depicting bucolic vistas of Northwest orchards, children with cherubic faces, attractive ...

YAKIMA, Wash. — Lifelong Yakima Valley resident Mike Doty collects fruit crate labels for the thrill of the hunt. “That’s what it’s all about. Stuff we’ve never seen before,” he said. Thomas Hull, a ...

Walk through any grocery store and the packages scream at you. Natural. Lightly sweetened. Made with real fruit. The labels ...

2 January 2005 The next few years will see the development of many new forms of intelligent packaging, capable of far more than the labelling and branding roles packaging has served until now.

Some might label this column a bit on the fruity side. Others may call it a veggie tale. Me? I chalk it up to curiosity about something that won’t make headlines, but it just might show up as a clue ...

Laser labels are the new face of fruit in some European countries, and the high-tech labeling could be coming to more U.S. markets too. The technology uses a carbon dioxide laser to etch a brand name ...