TRUETRAC Field Data Center
date: label: date made
content: 2008-2009
name: label: maker
content: TRUETRAC, LLC
notes: label: Description
content: This Field Data Center, manufactured by TRUETRAC, was installed on a lettuce harvester in Salinas, California to capture real-time harvesting data. It uses computer chips and GPS to record precise data, which are then sent over a cellular network to a database. This data allow a grower to capture, in real time, down to the row and within 20 feet, where your head of lettuce came from, what team picked it, when it was picked, when it traveled to the warehouse, and when it was stocked on the shelf. The information captured and the information available to the consumer grows out of food safety concerns and the need to trace back the origins of food products.
label: Description
content: The TrueTrac company was founded in 2005 following the 2002 Bioterrism Act, which requires every handler of food products to keep records documenting movement of its products—from where it was sourced to where it was shipped. Having digital, chain-wide tracking information assists the Food and Drug Administration (FDA); in the event of a food-borne illness outbreak, FDA can use this data to remove unsafe food from the market as quickly as possible while leaving safe food on the shelves. This object thus represents a major twenty-first-century change to agriculture: traceability.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Farming
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content: Work and Industry: Agriculture
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content: Food
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of TRUETRAC through Ray Connelly
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0050.01
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0050.01
label: accession number
content: 2012.0050
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Field Data Collecting Center-protective case
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic, metal, ink, adhesive, rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: protective exterior case: 20 3/4 in x 27 in x 39 1/2 in; 52.705 cm x 68.58 cm x 100.33 cm