Traceability in egg production Egg coding by Hitachi Ink Jet RX-S Series Coding of eggs for the marketplace is legally required and stringently controlled. In the EU, for instance, the first digit in the code represents the farming method, the following two letters indicate the EU country in which the egg was produced, and the last seven numbers indicate the producer organisation. This code is applied directly onto the egg, frequently also with additional information, generally to ensure internal traceability in production. Hitachi’s RX- S Ink Jet printer systems have now been certified by Moba Group, global leader of egg grading, packaging and processing machines. RX-S certified printer system Moba, based at Barneveld in the Netherlands, marketed the first egg-

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