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Researchers in the UK are trying to make your fairly traded coffee easier to verify. The New Scientist reports of a project that will use bar-code technology to trace the production stages of the jar of coffee you pick up at the supermarket. At each stage of production the item would be scanned and verified and the info put in a database so each person involved in the process – including the end consumer – would be able to see how and where it was made.
