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Marcelo Feitosa de Paula Dias, PhD candidate in Environmental Law, Queensland University of Technology

From beef to timber, a new era of labels will reveal where your shopping comes from

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Have you noticed more QR codes or country-of-origin labels on the meat at the supermarket or timber decking from the hardware shop? You’re not imagining it.

We’re in a new era of “traceability”. Labels – often with a QR code – will show shoppers where a product came from, who handled it and how it was checked to ensure it was not linked to illegal logging or deforestation.

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